in reply to Re: Return value from a binding operator?
in thread Return value from a binding operator?

> So that has helped some, but I still don't really get what that regex syntax does, particularly those square brackets [].

it's a character class with just one element '/', which is negated b/c of leading '^'.

That means: match any character except '/'.

see perlretut Using-character-classes for details

Cheers Rolf

( addicted to the Perl Programming Language)

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