Hi There,

In asking my question for clarification I belive I have answered myself but anyway:

Can I have some clarification on the wonderful line: 

my %prices = $str =~ m/((?:$animal)s?)\s(?:is|are)\s(\$\d+)/g;

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As I understand it the brackets are use to return the values as $1, $2 .. $9

It looks like (?: .. ) is something special and is not returning a numbered variable so all we get out are two variables $1 and $2 used respectively in the hash as the key and value?

I have often wanted to check to see if a string contains one of multiple sub-strings.. I assume I could do it like this: 

use strict;

my $something = 'This is a bang of a bing thing';

if($something =~ m/((?:bing|bong|bang))/i) {
 print "Found '$1' in '$something'\n";
}

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Woo Hoo! 
Found 'bang' in 'This is a bang of a bing thing'

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It returned the first one found.. which is fair.. I wonder if this could return all matches found, in this case 'band' and 'bing'?

And could I check for a string contain anything from a list? 

...
my @list = qw / bing bong bang /;
if($something =~ m/(?:@list)/i)
...

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naturally does not work :-(

thanks 

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In reply to Re: Re: Another regexp question by wolis
in thread Another regexp question by carric

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