Your code lacks a sigil on $source, and doesn't really do anything because it's evaluated in void context.

Sorry, I actually am coding this in Ruby. However, when I have a problem in other languages, I usually jump right to a perl -e ' code_block;', especially regexes. And whenever i have any kind of a problem that the perlmonks can help me out in, I go right here first...

Update:

Yes, it does do what I want. I just get leary when using .*. I've seen monks chastised a few times on perlmonks for that. But in this case, it should be fine. I was just wondering if there was another way.

Thanks

In reply to Re^2: Grouped characters inside character class. by the_0ne
in thread Grouped characters inside character class. by the_0ne

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