[MacPerl] $PREMATCH Question

2016-02-02 Thread Jonathan Levi via macperl
Can someone explain why the following: echo alphabet | perl -e '$_=; if (m/pha/){print $PREMATCH, "\n"}' yields "" instead of "al", as I expected? Jonathan

Re: [MacPerl] $PREMATCH Question

2016-02-03 Thread Jonathan Levi via macperl
Ronald and Matthew, many thanks. jl -Original Message- From: Ronald J Kimball To: Jonathan Levi Cc: macperl Sent: Wed, Feb 3, 2016 12:55 pm Subject: Re: [MacPerl] $PREMATCH Question On Tue, Feb 02, 2016 at 08:59:44PM -0500, Jonathan Levi via macperl wrote: > Can some