Luke Bakken wrote:
> What is the purpose of this illustration in the context of the
> original stated problem? The original problem stated that the string
> will have different numbers of alphabetic characters and numbers while
> your regex specifies 4 digits exactly. My code was in reference to the
> "potential problem with this algorithm" statement above where that
> person thought that old values for $1 and $2 may carry forward through
> match operations, which they do not, as illustrated below.
Easily remedied (I noted on it if they were exactly 4) this will handle
otherwise :
if (/^(\D{1,4})(\d{1,4})$/) {
print "alpha='$1' num='$2'\n";
} else {
print "Bad expr: $_\n";
}
The point is that it's just one if that does it all.
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