On Tue, 2 May 2000, Wagner-David wrote:
> I get the following warning:
>
> Useless use of subtraction in void context at
> c:\currwrka\00commonperl\03aaplxxx \aapl082.pl line 119.
>
> when this code :
> if ( /^[\=](.+)/ ) {
>
> in the following context is run(version: 5.005_003). I have tried a number
> of different things(ie ^\=(.+) ), but always end up with the above message.
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> I just trying to count lines of actual code verses blank lines and
> comments. Using start of line =xxxx as a flag to skip code and start of
> line =cut to restart counting.
>
Well I don't see a hypen charcter so I can't figure out why the
subtraction error is generated but I was wondering why you are
escaping the = character in the regex. It's not necessary.
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