Re^2: Comparing strings to reduce excess results

A regular expression doesn't return an array (while would be neccessary for for(each)), it just returns true or false.

It depends

warn $_ for "one" =~ /./;
warn $_ for "two" =~ /./g;
warn $_ for scalar "two" =~ /./g;
__END__
1 at - line 1.
t at - line 2.
w at - line 2.
o at - line 2.
1 at - line 3.
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Re^3: Comparing strings to reduce excess results by Sewi (Friar) on Sep 15, 2009 at 07:29 UTC
You won, I didn't know this way of using /g. Thanks! Try Padre - the free Perl IDE	[reply]