On Monday, September 23, 2002, at 05:50 PM, Ronald J Kimball wrote:
> One way would be to interpolate the record separator into the regex:
>
> if (m,(\d+\.\d{1,2})\Q$/,) {
Ah! I hadn't even though of that. Of course, you can read from (and
not -just- assign to) Perl's special variables too. Good idea.
> However, it might be preferable to remove the record separator with
> chomp(), and then just match the end of the string with \z. That way
> you
> won't have a problem at the end of the file.
Right, that solves the problem. I didn't know about the \z
metacharacter. It matches the end of the string only -- I assume that
it's there for situations like this (when the value of $ is being
messed with)?
Thank you,
Erik
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