Can you please explain a) and b) more detailed please? i tried out yous answer of a) which is 
$count = @count = $data =~ m/and/g; and it works ok

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also this works as well 
$count = () = $data =~ m/and/g;

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The problem is that i don't seem to understand why they are working!!! can u please expalin a liitle bit more? as far as for b) is this 
$_ = 'foo and bar and baz went to the sea.';
@pairs = /(and)(?=\W*(\w+))/g;
print join "#", @pairs;

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the same as this? 
$data = 'foo and bar and baz went to the sea.';
@pairs = $data =~ /(and)(?=\W*(\w+))/g;
print "@pairs";

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i dont understand this line of yours! 
@pairs = /(and)(?=\W*(\w+))/g;

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do you mean this? 
@pairs = $data =~ /(and)(?=\W*(\w+))/g;

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is $data implied on this? and what about the w the * and the +?

edited: Sat Sep 20 15:00:09 2003 by jeffa - code tags

In reply to Re: Re: a Couple of questions! by Nik
in thread a Couple of questions! by Nik

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