On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 09:59:00AM -0700, Michael Lazzaro wrote: > Noone ever guesses that =~ means "matching"
That's because it doesn't. =~ means something more akin to "apply" but it's only valid for the three m//, s///, tr/// ops. That'll change in perl 6 though :-) > If anything, I'd almost suggest the other way around, such that ~ means > matching and ~= means matching assignment: > > $str1 ~ $str2 # $str1 =~ m/$str2/ > $str ~ /foo/ # $str1 =~ m/foo/ > $str2 = ($str ~ /foo/bar/); # perform subst, assign result to $str2 > $str ~= /foo/bar/; # perform subst, assign result to $str I like it even though the naked ~ always makes me think of awk. -Scott -- Jonathan Scott Duff [EMAIL PROTECTED]
