Re: Rewriting Three Regexes as One

OK, I found the answer myself. Just in case anyone else ever has the same problem... its because I included brackets!! The following will work fine. I felt they improved readability, but this is no good at the expense of it not working ;D

m/\S=\S| =\S|\S= /g

Sorry people.

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Re: Re: Rewriting Three Regexes as One by Sidhekin (Priest) on May 05, 2002 at 02:58 UTC
`m/\S=\S\| =\S\|\S= /g` [download] Since you are concerned about readability, here is what I would prefer ... not that everyone thinks like me, but at least you have one more option :-) `# Bad: m/[\S ]=[\S ]/g m/(?!: = ).=./gs` [download] Update:I should not post this early ... I misread the specs. Without doing capturing braces (and you don't want that, I gather), I can do no better than your version. Update 2:Added the negative lookahead version. The Sidhekin `print "Just another Perl ${\(trickster and hacker)},"`	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re: Re: Rewriting Three Regexes as One
by Sidhekin (Priest) on May 05, 2002 at 02:58 UTC

m/\S=\S| =\S|\S= /g
[download]

Since you are concerned about readability, here is what I would prefer ... not that everyone thinks like me, but at least you have one more option :-)

# Bad: m/[\S ]=[\S ]/g
m/(?!: = ).=./gs
[download]

Update:I should not post this early ... I misread the specs. Without doing capturing braces (and you don't want that, I gather), I can do no better than your version.

Update 2:Added the negative lookahead version.

The Sidhekin
print "Just another Perl ${\(trickster and hacker)},"

[reply]
[d/l]
[select]