Re^2: Matching dot using regexp

<pedantic>
The regular expression that follows in the OP is /./ in the split expression. And FWIW, it could, indeed, be a string literal:

c:\@Work\Perl\monks>perl -wMstrict -MData::Dump -le
"my $tim = '01:00:01.004';
 ;;
 $tim =~ s/:/./g;
 print qq{new time is '$tim'};
 my @outputlist = split '\.', $tim;
 dd \@outputlist;
"
new time is '01.00.01.004'
["01", "00", "01", "004"]
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</pedantic>

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Re^3: Matching dot using regexp by LanX (Saint) on Oct 10, 2017 at 09:30 UTC
If it was a string literal why do you need to escape the dot? I read thru `split` couldn't find a a mention of strings as separators. From my knowledge using a delimiter in single quotes is still a regex, albeit without variable interpolation like in double quotes. UPDATE After reading the dialog it seems that what you meant, a literal string without interpolation used as regex. Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language and ☆☆☆☆ :) Je suis Charlie!}	[reply]
Re^4: Matching dot using regexp by soonix (Chancellor) on Oct 10, 2017 at 10:19 UTC
Somewhere in the middle of that doc it says that PATTERN can be a string composed of a single space character (such as ' ' or "\x20" , but not e.g. / / ). However, the only PATTERN strings that I find there are whitespace (PATTERN defaults to " " if omitted) and the empty string.	[reply]
Re^5: Matching dot using regexp by AnomalousMonk (Archbishop) on Oct 10, 2017 at 10:46 UTC
split is happy with any string (or anything that can be converted to a string) as a `/PATTERN/`, e.g., `c:\@Work\Perl\monks>perl -wMstrict -MData::Dump -le "my $tim = '10:00:10.004'; ;; my @outputlist = split '[:.]', $tim; dd \@outputlist; ;; my $p = 10; @outputlist = split $p, $tim; dd \@outputlist; " [10, "00", 10, "004"] ["", ":00:", ".004"]` [download] However, I would incline to use `// qr// m//` for any but the most simple and straightforward patterns; I vaguely recall pitfalls involving backslashes. Give a man a fish: `<%-{-{-{-<`	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: Matching dot using regexp by AnomalousMonk (Archbishop) on Oct 10, 2017 at 10:15 UTC
Well... I don't quite understand the point you're making, but... If it was a string literal why do you need to escape the dot? ... strings as separators. In my understanding, a string (or anything that's not a `Regexp` object) supplied as a `/PATTERN/` to split will be compiled to a regex, so a single- or double-quoted dot has meta-nature and must be meta-escaped to match only a period. Give a man a fish: `<%-{-{-{-<`	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: Matching dot using regexp by Anonymous Monk on Oct 10, 2017 at 11:10 UTC
Heh slow days and i draws the ijits. Regular expressions are not english or chinese they're regex. No matter qr// or qr'' or qr"" whats inside is a different language it aint a plain string	[reply]

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