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It's fair point around here but for novice or unperlish programmer using a = sign in the statement indicates there is an assignment going on.
... which is exactly why you shouldn't use it, because in =~, there is no assignment going on!

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Loading a Hash directly from a Regex
by hakkr (Chaplain) on Feb 15, 2002 at 09:18 UTC
    Shot foot there then, maybe I meant comparison instead of assignment. I suppose there is an assignment to the special vars. Maybe we need a ==~ operator or an eq~ or maybe my confusion has defeated me.
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