1. What does this comment mean? 

  # look for b e n(regardless of intervening characters)

[download]

2. Keep in mind that what you're saying is: Process each file found in @ARGV. For each such file, analyze each line in turn and print out the entire line if the line as a whole matches the pattern.

Example: Create a file called abort and add it to @ARGV. Type one line of text into that file: 

zzzzzaxbxoxrxt caxton

[download]
Re-run the script and ask yourself if that's what you were looking for. HTH!
Jim Keenan

In reply to Re: Regular expression questions by jkeenan1
in thread Regular expression questions by chinamox

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.