On 27 Aug 2002, Uri Guttman wrote:
: >>>>> "LW" == Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
: LW> m{^\s*[
: LW> "$stuff:=(.*?)" |
: LW> $stuff:=(\S+)
: LW> ]};
:
: couldn't that be reduced to:
:
: m{^\s* $stuff := [ "(.*?)" | (\S+) ] };
:
: the | will only return one of the grabbed chunks and the result of the
: [] group would be assigned to $stuff.That too. Larry
