Hello Monks,

I was trying to use the "/r" flag in a REGEX Search and Replace and I keep getting the error:
"Bareword found where operator expected at ./test.pl line 11, near "s/Matt/Matthew/r" "

For Example: 
#!/usr/bin/perl

use warnings;
use strict;

my $str;
my $str2;

$str = "Hello World I'm Matt";

$str2 = $str =~ s/Matt/Matthew/r;

print " str = $str\n";
print "str2 = $str2\n";

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The server it's running on has Perl Version 5.8.8.
Was the Non-Destructive Flag "/r" not implemented in this version of Perl? If so, is it possible to get it without upgrading all of Perl..?



Thanks in Advance,
Matt

In reply to REGEX Non-Destructive Flag by mmartin

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