Re: [Boston.pm] pos on string in hash

[Daniel R. Allen]

Seems to be new as of 5.6.0, but they aren't listed in perldelta.

I did find out that as of perl5.6 you can have variable names such as
${^Hi} where the ^H is actually 'ctrl-h'.

But I'm not sure why this is useful.

-Daniel

On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, j proctor wrote:

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> > hm, I couldn't find @- or @+ in the second edition of Programming Perl.
> > when you get some docs handy, could you point me to a specific source?
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> They hold the offsets of the beginnings and ends of the last successful
> submatches.  $-[0] is the offset of the beginning of the entire match,
> $+[0] the offset of the end of the entire match.
> 
> See also:  perldoc perlvar
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> j
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