Re: [MacPerl] Setting regex switch programmaticaly

[Scott R. Godin]

on 03/05/2001 01:47 PM, Ronald J Kimball at
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> 
> In 5.004/MacPerl, try this instead:
> 
> $_ = 'Yet Another Perl Hacker';
> $switch = 'i';
> print /(?$switch)PERL/'Y':'N';
> 
> 
> (?imsx) was in 5.004; (?imsx:PATTERN) was added later.
> 
> 
> Ronald


you forgot an additional '?' ;)

print /(?$switch)PERL/ ? 'Y':'N';
#                      ^

This does work however in 5.004 MacPerl. Thanks for the heads-up :)


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