Re: regexp operator -- same mistake over and over again

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Best way to remember the order is to remember the order for NOT matching, ie !~ You never have a NOT exclamation point which is not at the start of the operator. Of that you can be sure. So, the matching operator must be =~ rather than ~=

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Re: Re: regexp operator -- same mistake over and over again by seattlejohn (Deacon) on Feb 07, 2004 at 20:14 UTC
Yes, this worked for me too. The order seemed completely unnatural when I was first learning Perl but I sort of told myself that `~` is the regex binding operator and the `=` or `!` is a modifier that indicates whether the binding is to be construed as an affirmative or negative one. Pretty kludgy but became second nature soon enough. $perlmonks{seattlejohn} = 'John Clyman';	[reply]

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