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in thread regex question

though don't forget that 
/^$words$/

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expands to 
/^word1|word2|word3$/

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What you probably want to do is 
/^(?:$words)$/

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-- Dan

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Re: Re: Re: regex question
by gnu@perl (Pilgrim) on Sep 24, 2002 at 17:57 UTC
    This will shoot in a little different direction, but I was wondering about the '?:'. dosen't that just keep the match from being placed into $_?
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      (?:...) means that the paren are only used to group, but not to save the match in $1. No real difference, except it's supposed to be faster.

      See perlre for more info.

      -- Dan

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