in reply to Re^2: Misreading m// documentation (perlop =~ )
in thread Misreading m// documentation

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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Re^4: Misreading m// documentation (perlop =~ )
by QM (Parson) on Apr 09, 2014 at 08:47 UTC
    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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Re^4: Misreading m// documentation (perlop =~ )
by Anonymous Monk on Mar 27, 2014 at 19:35 UTC
    And then what happened?
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      ???
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        ikegami: ???

        and then what happened?

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