Re: Regular expressions and sort

No one seems to have mentioned that my $mask=/_(\d\d)_/; is Not the Code You Are Looking For. To put a regex in $mask, use qr// like so: my $mask = qr/_(\d\d)_/;

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Re^2: Regular expressions and sort by ioannis (Abbot) on Nov 04, 2005 at 15:16 UTC
I was also eyeballing the statement $mask=/_(\d\d)_/ . After some investigation with use re 'debugcolor', it turns out that the /_(\d\d)_/ gets compiled but nothing is stored in $mask. In effect, the statement $_[0] =~ /$mask/ is equal to $_[0] =~ //	[reply]
Re^3: Regular expressions and sort by ikegami (Patriarch) on Nov 04, 2005 at 15:43 UTC
No, not "nothing". The result of `$_ =~ /_(\d\d)_/`, a boolean value, gets stored.	[reply] [d/l]