Re^4: Identifying Reverse Position of Specific Character in a String

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since the function makes no attempt to alter $_.

Odd, I see two things that modify it. An assignment, and the regexp alters the associated pos. The point of local is to protect the caller, but it doesn't necessarily do so in this situation.

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Re^5: Identifying Reverse Position of Specific Character in a String by jdporter (Paladin) on Aug 25, 2006 at 20:18 UTC
Point. Or two. ;-)	[reply]

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