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That exactly what I thought I typed but I left out the ~ in my assignment statement. Thanks.

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Re: Re: Re: Quotes
by Rudif (Hermit) on Apr 21, 2001 at 16:33 UTC
    but I left out the ~ in my assignment statement.

    The perlman:perlop defines =~ as a binding operator, not an assignment:
    Binary ``=~'' binds a scalar expression to a pattern match.

    Rudif
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