in reply to regex and getpwent()...

I am not sure that m// match empty ("") value. It matches everything.

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Re: Re: regex and getpwent()...
by japhy (Canon) on May 28, 2001 at 05:25 UTC
    It only matches everything until you've matched anything. (Think that's cryptic?) 
    for (qw( a b403 c<<>_# d84930 e89293->><{}W )) {
  print if //;
}

"foo" =~ /foo/;

for (qw( a b403 c<<>_# d84930 e89293->><{}W )) {
  print if //;
}

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      Ouch! That's quite nasty looking...
      Looks like I really need to get my head around regular expressions a bit better! 8)

      Thanks for the help.
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