Re: conditional regex

Why make things so complicated? You want to match /[yY](?:[eE][sS])?/ ... but 'eq' is so much simpler ...

my $word = lc $_;
print "yes\n" if $word eq 'y' or $word eq 'yes';
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I think I need to make Occam's Razore my new .sig ... no one else seems to be defending the concept.

As Occam said: Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem.

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Re^2: conditional regex by ikegami (Patriarch) on Aug 23, 2010 at 03:35 UTC
`chomp` needed. I wouldn't necessarily call `chomp( my $word = lc $_ ); if $word eq 'y' or $word eq 'yes';` [download] simpler than `if /^y(?:es)?$/i;` [download] Maybe it's more complex to write, but surely it's simpler to read.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: conditional regex by Old_Gray_Bear (Bishop) on Aug 23, 2010 at 11:32 UTC
Simplicity is all in the eye of the Maintenance Programmer.... ---- I Go Back to Sleep, Now. OGB	[reply]