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Thank you,

I see the mistake i'm making now in the second s///. all better.

Also i was unaware that using $& was any worse the $1,$2.
Thanks for pointing that out as well.

I do appreciate the help.
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Re: Re: Re: help in understanding odd regex match
by duff (Parson) on Feb 20, 2004 at 21:39 UTC

    $& slows down every regular expression in your program where $1 and friends just slow down those regular expressions that use them. Same goes for $` and $'. This is documented (albeit sparsely) in perlvar

    duff

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