Hi Monks,

Why does this:
  perl -e '$a="<abc|def>";$a =~ s/<(.+?)(\|.+?)>/-$1-/;print $a'
give this output:
  -abc-
which looks right to me, but this:
  perl -e '$a="<abc|def>";$a =~ s|<(.+?)(\|.+?)>|-$1-|;print $a'
(which is the same thing with '|' regex pattern delimiters), give this output:
  -a-

I was wanting to use the regex substitution pattern delimiter '|' instead of '/' because my read data had '/' in the text, so '|' meant I didn't have to escape the '/'s.

Perl version: 5.10.1.

Thanks.
tel2

In reply to Regex delimiters: '/' vs '|' by tel2

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