Re: Regex not behaving as expected

context. your example has $sk in scalar context. you need list context, i.e. ($sk)

perl -e'$_=q#: 13_2: 12/"{>: 8_4) (_4: 6/2"-2; 3;-2"\2: 5/7\_/\7: 12m m::#;s#:#\n#g;s#(\D)(\d+)#$1x$2#ge;print'

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Re: Re: Regex not behaving as expected by pizza_milkshake (Monk) on Feb 01, 2003 at 12:21 UTC
and you need capturing () around the pattern itself... smacks self in face www.willhackforfood.org	[reply]
Re:^3: Regex not behaving as expected by diotalevi (Canon) on Feb 01, 2003 at 16:47 UTC
Not necessarily. If there are no capture groups then the list context result behaves as if there is an implicit group around the entire regex. Seeking Green geeks in Minnesota	[reply]
Re: Re:^3: Regex not behaving as expected by ihb (Deacon) on Feb 01, 2003 at 16:59 UTC
Iff there is a `/g` modifier on it.	[reply] [d/l]