in reply to Tattoo question

purely for aesthetic reasons you might want to use the /x modifier, so that you can add whitespace to the pattern and not have it change the meaning. For example, if you don't want to tat to be so wide ... 
 s/classes
/masses/gix

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Re^2: Tattoo question
by Anonymous Monk on Sep 30, 2004 at 11:32 UTC
    Or without the /x: 
    s[classes]
 [masses]gi

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    I myself would take a tattoo of a flying squirrel.
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