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in thread Misreading m// documentation

PPI gets it right, its a string ... or is that "wrong" of ppi? ha 

$ ppi_dumper -W shabba
PPI::Document
  PPI::Statement
    PPI::Token::Symbol          '$x'
    PPI::Token::Operator        '=~'
    PPI::Token::Quote::Single   ''^something''
    PPI::Token::Structure       ';'

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Re^3: Misreading m// documentation (perlop =~ )
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Mar 27, 2014 at 18:57 UTC

    My attention was directed to the post to which this is a reply. I'm not quite sure what the point of that post is, or why it was brought to my attention. All I can say is: Of course '^something' is a single-quoted string literal.

    That doesn't mean it the code doesn't result in a regex match. We already know it does. 

    >perl -MO=Concise,-exec -e"$x =~ '^something'"
1  <0> enter
2  <;> nextstate(main 1 -e:1) v:{
3  <#> gvsv[*x] s
4  </> match(/"^something"/) vKS/RTIME
5  <@> leave[1 ref] vKP/REFC
-e syntax OK

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      Sorry, I've been away for a while...

      I pointed you to the wrong node. I replied to a subthread of the OP, and tried to highlight that to several responders, failing. I should have just left it to everyone's own devices to find the additions.

      And it's been so long since I posted last in this thread, I can't remember what I was so excited to tell everyone about. Perhaps just that I initially thought the documentation left something out, but then discovered that it didn't, and could perhaps just be tied together a little tighter.

      Cheers,

      -QM
      --
      Quantum Mechanics: The dreams stuff is made of

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      And then what happened?
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