Re: bareword error

A couple of points:

You are doing a match, not an assignment so use =~ rather than =.
Is the second slash in your m//http|html|HTML|A HREF|a href/i intended or a typo? It is why you are getting a bareword error because you are matching against an empty pattern (m// which actually means last successful match, thanks hipowls for pointing that out) and the 'http' that follows is the bareword. If intended, either escape it with a backslash (m/\/http..../) or change the delimiter used to something other than a forward slash (m{/http....}).

I hope this is helpful.

Cheers,

JohnGG

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Re^2: bareword error by hipowls (Curate) on Mar 14, 2008 at 10:49 UTC
Good answer, one error though, `m//` is not an empty pattern, it is the last pattern to successfully match, split gets special dispensation so that `split m//, $stuff` does split on an empty pattern. From the split reference: As a special case for split, using the empty pattern // specifically matches only the null string, and is not be confused with the regular use of // to mean "the last successful pattern match". So, for split, the following: `print join(':', split(//, 'hi there'));` [download] produces the output 'h:i: :t:h:e:r:e'.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: bareword error by johngg (Canon) on Mar 14, 2008 at 11:16 UTC
Cripes, I'd never realised that, thanks for pointing it out. I had to write a little piece of code to prove it to myself. `$ perl -le ' > $s1 = q{catDOGfish}; > $s2 = q{xxYYYzz}; > print $1 if $s1 =~ m{([A-Z]+)}; > print $1 if $s1 =~ m{([0-9]+)}; > print $1 if $s2 =~ m{};' DOG YYY $` [download] Fancy not knowing that after all this time! Thanks again, JohnGG	[reply] [d/l]