Good catch, but the whole implementation is annoyingly inconsistent.

I thought I could make this more obvious by implementing functions like nodege(), noflip(), and noflop() to write something like

grep { noedge(/DBIC/ .. /DANCER/)  }@list;

but try guessing which magic behavior hinders that:

DB<52> @list= ("a".."c","DBIC","A".."C","DANCER","a".."c"); DB<53> sub ff { print $_[0]} DB<54> grep { ff(/DBIC/ .. /DANCER/) } @list; 0000000000 DB<55> grep { my $x=(/DBIC/ .. /DANCER/); ff($x) } @list; 12345E0

Of course I could also use something like compiled regexes for EDGE, FLIP, FLOP to be able to type something like:

grep { (/DBIC/ .. /DANCER/) !~ EDGE  } @list;

but that doesn't seem to be trivial, too :-(

Thanks anyway!

Cheers Rolf


In reply to Re^2: Bug with "last successfully matched regular expression" (empty regex) by LanX
in thread Bug with "last successfully matched regular expression" (empty regex) by LanX

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