Re^2: Bizarre copy of ARRAY

The 'g' is not superfluous; it's wrong (i.e. buggy, can cause errors). 'g' in scalar context is almost always wrong.

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Re^3: Bizarre copy of ARRAY by Anonymous Monk on Mar 20, 2011 at 08:17 UTC
BTW,what are x,m,g,s for?I am using it because I saw it somewhere and thought its useful	[reply]
Re^4: Bizarre copy of ARRAY by Corion (Patriarch) on Mar 20, 2011 at 08:58 UTC
See perlop, and likely perlretut and perlre while you're at it. "Seeing things somewhere" is a good start, but you should read up on the documentation what things mean instead of blindly using them.	[reply]
Re^4: Bizarre copy of ARRAY by ikegami (Patriarch) on Mar 20, 2011 at 19:27 UTC
'x' affects how whitespace and '#' behave. 'm' affects how "^" and "$" behave. 's' affects how "." behaves. See perlre for details on the above (since they affect regex patterns) and see perlop for 'g' (since it's affects the substitution operator).	[reply]