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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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Re: Re: Re: Re: regex question
by zigdon (Deacon) on Sep 24, 2002 at 18:14 UTC
    (?:...) 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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