Re^2: Capturing groups where the ending is optional

Thank you. I'll examine this code. As for the $1 vs \1, there were no warnings --- I'm only using perl from the command line in a bash script. I'm pretty much a complete perl noob. Thank you for helping.

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Re^3: Capturing groups where the ending is optional by AnomalousMonk (Archbishop) on Jan 15, 2018 at 03:48 UTC
... there were no warnings --- I'm only using perl from the command line .... I'm pretty much a complete perl noob. Perl noobs in particular should always enable warnings and strictures. One way to do this from the command line is `perl -wMstrict -e "perl code here ..." whatever else ...` (double-quotes for Windoze, single-quotes otherwise). Give a man a fish: `<%-{-{-{-<`	[reply] [d/l] [select]