[%# on the subject of something.match %] On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 06:22:43PM -0800, Craig Barratt wrote: > Nice! But match is almost identical to search. There is a slight > difference in the way the results are returned: > > match> my @matches = ($str =~ /$search/); > match> return @matches ? \@matches : ''; > > search> return $str =~ /$pattern/; > [...] > So how about we replace "search" with the new "match" and not have > two different functions?
Yep. Or rather, I'll document search as being defunct, replaced by match, but leave it in there for now. There's a pun in there somewhere, I'm sure... :-) A
