• For some reason, printing out $1 only prints 1 star when the regex $HAIR is clearly matching 3 stars
  • For some reason, my attempt to replace 3 stars at the start of a string with the empty string is clearning the whole string.

    Could someone please help me with this? Thanks! 

    my @question;

sub make_question {
  my ($question,@answer) = @_;
  [ $question, \@answer ];
}

push @question, make_question
'What is an example of autovivification in Perl?',
  '***my %x; $x{y}->[2]->{jum} ;',
  'sub y { my ($self,$x) = @_ }',
  'my $end = ($end > rand) ? $end : rand;';
  ;
  
for (@question) {
  printf "Question %d: %s\n", ++$count, shift @$_;
  my $HAIR = '^([*]){3}';
  my $count;
  for my $answer (@{$_->[0]}) {
    if ($mode eq 'key') {
      if ($answer =~ /$HAIR/) {
         $answer = $1;
      } else {
         $answer = '';
      }
    } else {
      $answer = s/$HAIR//;
   }
    printf "\t%d. %s\n", ++$count, $answer;
  }

  print "\n";
}

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    In reply to regex to substitute 3 stars at beginnning of string with none? by princepawn

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