Yup! There's one of those obvious things I feared: Duh??? ``@'' is an "array" sigil. Wow. I love learning, and it is usually quit a laugh too. Like this time.

Nice code! I'm still used to c, just learning perl, and spontaneous variable declarations seem soooo immoral! Just habit. Also, the next if $str !~ /\w?([0-9])/; type of code is still new to me.

I am assuming that the $- values are keying on the positional declaration within the re. And unlike pos, it does not require m/.../g ?

Changed this to:

    if ( $filename =~ /([0-9])/ ) {
    ($startloc = $-[0]);
    ($alphaloc = $startloc + 4); }
    print "$startloc$alphaloc   ";

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The &&'d failed to set $alphaloc if $startloc was zero. (More hilarity!) A case of trying to be clever, instead of being clever.

Which now works. Perhaps before I die, I'll remember that perl's arrays are scalar references. Perhaps not.

Thank you for your help. This now works, and I can get this done.


David

In reply to Re^2: position of first matching regex by techtaskers.com
in thread position of first matching regex by techtaskers.com

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