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Well, fred|barney as a string doesn't have three things that match the regex (fred|barney) in a row. So I would expect it to say "no match". Are you getting something different from that?

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

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by WarrenBullockIII (Beadle) on Jun 09, 2002 at 16:03 UTC
    Yes actually I am getting it to say no match. Thats what I expect it get too! So I guess I don't uderstand the question in the book then...
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      Three consecutive copies of the regex fred|barney would be like: 
      fredfredfred
fredbarneyfred
barneybarneybarney

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      and so on. Put one of those as your string on the left of the =~ operator, and it'll match!

      -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

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        ok well the way I understood the question was totally oposite of that... sorry:-) So the point to question 1 in chapter nine is that you can use the contents of a variable as the pattern instead of typing out an actual pattern? so for example: 
        barneybarneybarney =~ /($what){3}/

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        would match the string because the variable contains the contents of the string barneybarneybarney ??? Sorry if I'm being a pain in the neck but I just want to make sure I fully understand this before I move on to chapter 10.
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