•Re: Re: •Re: Re: •Re: A pattern that matches three consecutive copies...

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!

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Re: •Re: Re: •Re: Re: •Re: A pattern that matches three consecutive copies... by WarrenBullockIII (Beadle) on Jun 09, 2002 at 16:23 UTC
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}/` [download] 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.	[reply] [d/l]
•Re: Re: •Re: Re: •Re: Re: •Re: A pattern that matches three consecutive copies... by merlyn (Sage) on Jun 09, 2002 at 16:32 UTC
Well, as a quoted string, yes. Putting it bare like that might work for this one precise example, but will bite you later. -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker	[reply]