What is the functional difference between the $_ = line and the $_ =~ line line of code? Besides one being commented out... hahahah very funny :) The latter is a patch that I got that he was happy with and it passes my test case, so I never bothered about it, but now I have some free time and was wondering what the diff was in the 2 lines. 
foreach (@{$dir})
        {
        # $_ =~ m#([a-z-]*)\s*([0-9]*)\s*([0-9a-zA-Z]*)\s*([0-9a-zA-Z]
+*)\s*([0-9]*)\s*([A-Za-z]*)\s*([0-9]*)\s*([0-9A-Za-z:]*)\s*([A-Za-z0-
+9.-]*)#;
          $_ =  m#([a-z-]*)\s*([0-9]*)\s*([0-9a-zA-Z]*)\s*([0-9a-zA-Z]
+*)\s*([0-9]*)\s*([A-Za-z]*)\s*([0-9]*)\s*([0-9A-Za-z:]*)\s*([\w*\W*\s
+*\S*]*)#;

        my $perm = $1;
        my $inode = $2;
        my $owner = $3;
        my $group = $4;
        my $size = $5;
        my $month = $6;
        my $day = $7;
        my $yearOrTime = $8;
        my $name = $9;
        my $linkTarget;

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In reply to [perlre] $_ = /$re/ vs $_ =~ /$re/ by princepawn

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