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in thread Regex to Truncate URLs Nicely

Neat, thank you.

One question: 

s![?].*$!!;

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Why is the query in brackets there?
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($_='jjjuuusssttt annootthheer
     pppeeerrrlll haaaccckkeer')=~y/a-z//s;print;

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Re^3: Regex to Truncate URLs Nicely
by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Nov 02, 2002 at 11:42 UTC
    Cause it has to be escaped outside: s!\?.*$!!; The bracketed version occasionally looks less noisy. That's all.

    Makeshifts last the longest.

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