On Wed, Jul 12, 2000 at 11:32:21AM +1000, Scott Howard wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 11:34:59PM +0000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> >
> > But in the scope of a regex, the first $ can not be interpreted as the prefix
> > of a variable. The second may be but only if you use s///e.
>
> Umm.. Perl disagrees with you :)
>
> $aa="bb";
> while(<>) {
> s/$aa/xx/g;
> print;
> }
You're right. Perl does interpret $aa as a variable if it's defined, yuck.
Just think of the contortion the parser goes through with things like $\ and
$), no don't :)
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