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Re: Re: Re: Re: Regexing an input stream...
by shotgunefx (Parson) on Jun 19, 2003 at 11:42 UTC
    Doh! I stand corrected. Normally when I see people talking about perl version I see it refered to in the manner of perl -v
    I was thinking that the poster was implying that it was added in an old perl ala 5.00X

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