Re^2: Pattern matching forwards/backwards???

That assumes there are no dashes and dots between the three letters searched for. It would fail on:

$_ = 'A-BCXFGHWW';
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Re^3: Pattern matching forwards/backwards??? by CountZero (Bishop) on Jun 15, 2009 at 11:15 UTC
A small change and it will work again: `$_ = 'A-BCXFGHWW'; print join '', m/([^-.])[-.]([^-.])[-.]([^-.])[-.]*\QXFGHWW\E/;` [download] CountZero A program should be light and agile, its subroutines connected like a string of pearls. The spirit and intent of the program should be retained throughout. There should be neither too little or too much, neither needless loops nor useless variables, neither lack of structure nor overwhelming rigidity." - The Tao of Programming, 4.1 - Geoffrey James	[reply] [d/l]

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Re^3: Pattern matching forwards/backwards???
by CountZero (Bishop) on Jun 15, 2009 at 11:15 UTC

$_ = 'A-BCXFGHWW';
print join '', m/([^-.])[-.]*([^-.])[-.]*([^-.])[-.]*\QXFGHWW\E/;
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A program should be light and agile, its subroutines connected like a string of pearls. The spirit and intent of the program should be retained throughout. There should be neither too little or too much, neither needless loops nor useless variables, neither lack of structure nor overwhelming rigidity." - The Tao of Programming, 4.1 - Geoffrey James

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