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in thread Why do I need parentheses here?

/PAT/ (m/PAT/) is the match operator. qr/PAT/ compiles the pattern and returns the pattern without doing any matching. perlop 
$ perl -le'$_="abc"; print /(.)/;'
a

$ perl -le'$_="abc"; print qr/(.)/;'
(?-xism:(.))

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Re^6: Why do I need parentheses here?
by rovf (Priest) on May 27, 2009 at 15:08 UTC

    Ah, thanks a lot. I confused this with Ruby.... I should not mix languages too much ;-)

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    Ronald Fischer <ynnor@mm.st>
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