Re^2: WARNING!! Possible Brainbench spoilers (do NOT read unless you've taken and passed the cert)

That is one of the goofiest context-things I've ever seen. Must mean why if you want the number of matches, you need to do

my $data = () = "Hello World" =~ /(.*) (.*)/;
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Re^3: WARNING!! Possible Brainbench spoilers (do NOT read unless you've taken and passed the cert) by tachyon (Chancellor) on Jul 02, 2004 at 22:55 UTC
Perhaps it is because of the difficulty in defining matches? For example I would call this example one match that returns a two element array ( $1, $2 ). I might well expect it to return 1, you evidently expect 2. I do agree that it is non intuitive. cheers tachyon	[reply]