I have tried this problem with the solution that they gave in the book but it didn't work
Since the answer given there has been presented in classrooms hundreds of times to thousands of people and read by probably a hundred times that many again home readers who bought the book and worked through the exercises, and you would be the first to say it "didn't work", I suspect something is more off kilter in your transcription or understanding of the answer than something wrong in the book. Just looking at the odds. {grin}

Please post precisely what you tried, what you expected, and what you got. I bet we can sort it out from there.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

In reply to •Re: A pattern that matches three consecutive copies... by merlyn
in thread A pattern that matches three consecutive copies... by WarrenBullockIII

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