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in thread pattern matching and return values

lame but fun; don't follow this idiom|t.

use Data::Dumper; my $stuff = 'ASDFZXCV S;JL KJQWER QWER ZXCVO ;QLKWERQ JKL;JAPS'; my %hash; my @keys = qw( asdf qwer jkl; ); @hash{@keys} = $stuff =~ / (asdf) .*? (qwer) .*? (jkl;) /gix; print Dumper \%hash;

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Re^3: pattern matching and return values
by tachyon (Chancellor) on Jul 18, 2004 at 09:31 UTC

    I'm with you there! Just because you can does not mean you should.

    cheers

    tachyon