Re^2: Creating an index on a string-collection

I can understand that oophoroepilepsy matches against oophoro* (with the '*' wildcard at the end), but how does otomyces match against *otomy (with the '*' wildcard at the beginning)?

Shouldn't '*otomy' (and '*botomy', for that matter) match against something like 'phlebotomy'?

What is the significance of the position of the wildcard character in the search string?

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Re^3: Creating an index on a string-collection by samtregar (Abbot) on Feb 09, 2009 at 03:23 UTC
Hey, reverse() on a scalar doesn't reverse it! I wonder why I thought it did. Fixed code will go in the original node in a moment. I'm sure there are other bugs though - this was just example code! -sam	[reply]
Re^4: Creating an index on a string-collection by AnomalousMonk (Archbishop) on Feb 09, 2009 at 08:00 UTC
It does in `scalar` context: `>perl -wMstrict -le "my $s = 'foobar'; print reverse $s, 'zot'; print scalar reverse $s, 'zot'; " zotfoobar tozraboof` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^5: Creating an index on a string-collection by samtregar (Abbot) on Feb 09, 2009 at 08:07 UTC
Ah, thanks. Someday, when Perl is long gone, I'm not going to miss caring about what context my function calls are in! -sam	[reply]