On Fri, 4 May 2001, Jean-Paul Felix wrote:
> On page 18 of the book (1st ed) there is a line which carries out a
> pre-check of $_ to see if it contains the data being searched for
> (somewhere?):
> next unless m/^\Q$siteName:/;
> On page 24 it's:
> next unless m/\Q$siteName/;
\Q means to de-metaize (quote) meta characters, until \E or the end of the
pattern is found. ^ means the start of the string ($ means the end).
\E ends \Q, \L or \U (the latter being case control).
-- Brett
http://www.chapelperilous.net/btfwk/
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