Thank you for the reply jeroenes.
(BTW, the first block in
my question has a mistake, saying "$_" where it should say
"$next".)
You said
I wouldn't use and with substitution, though. Just:
s/test/somestuff/;
print;
does the job cleaner: only one print.
You're right about that. Would the following be a better illustration of
the advantage I perceive?
s/^(\d+)/("0"x(8-length).$1)/xe and print or
s/^(\w)/("\x20"x(8-length).$1)/xe and print for @ARGV;
Suppose that @ARGV is a combination of digits and words,
all digits get zero-padding and all words are padded by
space. Anything that fails both matches should be discarded.
Update:
Very well then, jeroenes - I will follow the tradition
And thanks again for the replies :-)
mkmcconn
