On Thu, 22 Nov 2001 13:45:16 +0100, Bart Lateur wrote: >>now I don't see why there is '?:' in front of each alternation in the expanded >regex. Is this an instance of the '? ... :' operator ?
>Most definitely not. These are regexes, which is an entirely different language >inside perl. So there are different syntax rules. [...] Bart, That's very useful info. I didn't know of these regex extensions. Time to get a more recent book. Thank you.
