in reply to Re: Re: Reverse grep?
in thread Reverse grep?

Considering that one must hold down the shift key for the tilde character, coupled with the fact that the plus sign character shares the same key as the equal sign character ... yes ;)

But, have you played with the results yet? 

[prompt]$ perl -le 'print /RED/'

[prompt]$ perl -le 'print ~/RED/'
4294967295
[prompt]$ perl -le 'print hex("F"x8)'
4294967295 
[prompt]$ perl -le '$_ = "REDIRECT"; print /RED/'
1
[prompt]$ perl -le '$_ = "REDIRECT"; print ~/RED/'
4294967294
[prompt]$ perl -le '$_ = "REDIRECT"; print 5+~/RED/'
4294967299

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Gotta love Perl's flexibility! :D

jeffa

L-LL-L--L-LL-L--L-LL-L--
-R--R-RR-R--R-RR-R--R-RR
B--B--B--B--B--B--B--B--
H---H---H---H---H---H---
(the triplet paradiddle with high-hat)

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