Re: New regex trick...

So \K basically means don't worry, I only started matching *here*, where here is the position where the previous atom of the regex stopped matching e.g

my $str =           "foo bar baz";
# will 'start' matching here ^
$str =~ s< (?: \w+ [ ] )+ \K \w+ >()x;
print '[' . $str . ']';

__output__

[foo bar ]
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Or should I just go back to implementing pointers in perl?
HTH

_________ broquaint

update: added missing whitespace in output (odd how an additional character requires so many to explain ;)

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Re: Re: New regex trick... by japhy (Canon) on Jul 22, 2002 at 19:50 UTC
You've got the right idea (except for a missing whitespace in your output). _____________________________________________________ Jeff`[japhy]`Pinyan: Perl, regex, and perl hacker, who'd like a job (NYC-area) `s++=END;++y(;-P)}y js++=;shajsj<++y(p-q)}?print:??;`	[reply]