hmm.. yup, gotcha there.. shouldn't have added that last bit.

ok.. knew I saw something somewhere.. in "Programming Perl" it has the example:

$regex = qr/$pattern/;
$string =~ /foo${regex}bar/; # interpolate into larger patterns

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..and then the comment, "This time, Perl does recompile the pattern, but you could always chain several qr// operators together into one."

So would they maybe be suggesting something more like:

my $re = qr!yes|no!;
my $re2 = qr!\sthankyou!;
my $bigre = $re.$re2;
print "polite yes or no\n" if "yes thankyou" =~ $bigre;

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hmm.. on further thought, that doesn't seem right either. Would $re & $re2 each be stringified in that operation? If so that would mean that $bigre would simply be eq to the string '(?-xism:yes|no)(?-xism:\sthankyou)'

The only other thing I can think they mean is:

my $bigre = qr!yes|no!.qr!\sthankyou!;

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But I really don't see the point in that... Anyone know what they mean by "chain several qr// operators together"?

cheers,

J

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: regex "o" modifier by edoc
in thread regex "o" modifier by shemp

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