Re: Disambuating $ in (especially /m) regexps

There's also the option of using /x, having a space after the $ will remove the ambiguity for the compiler and anyone reading the code.

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Re^2: Disambuating $ in (especially /m) regexps by tlhackque (Beadle) on Jan 05, 2016 at 12:56 UTC
I like that unconventional use of /x. Thanks.	[reply]
Re^3: Disambuating $ in (especially /m) regexps by BillKSmith (Monsignor) on Jan 05, 2016 at 22:04 UTC
You must be careful not to match lines that are not consecutive. `use strict; use warnings; my $string = "foo LAST\n" ." blftz\n" ."LINE fum\n" ; print "MATCH\n" if ($string =~ m/LAST$ .* ^LINE/xms) ;` [download] You could solve this with: `print "MATCH\n" if ($string =~ m/LAST$ ..? ^LINE/xms) ;` [download] Bill	[reply] [d/l] [select]