... you most likely don't want to use the /g option ... [emphasis added]
For advice to a monk inexperienced in both programming in general and Perl in perticular, I would promote "most likely don't" to "do not" (including the boldface) for the reason that your example demonstrates and perlop discusses: that it sets up a subtle (but still lethal!) pitfall that may ensnare even the most puissant monk. In fact, I would go farther and say that an inexperienced monk should never use the /g regex modifier unless he or she knows exactly why it is being used. (In fact, this would not be bad general advice for monks and programmers of every level of experience!)
In reply to Re^2: How to insert || and && in an if loop
by AnomalousMonk
in thread How to insert || and && in an if loop
by perl514
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