On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Mark A. Chalkley wrote:
> Ok, a dumb question here (I must be having a brain halt...):
>
> Given the following snippet of code to load data from a file into a
> hash,
>
> while( <DATA> ) { /(.*)\,(.*)/ && ($hash{$1} = $2) };
>
>
> what does the '&&' do?
>
It's a logical AND operator so that the hash assignment is done
only when the regex matches. However the regex is pretty sloppy.
Note tbe following lines all will match:
?<>,*
,
,
#,#
screwed,eval {`format drive C: \\V:x \\U`}
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