Re^2: assigning regex matches to variables

Couldn't get that to work. Also tried

my @digits = $string2 =~ /(\d)+/;

which didn't work either. I guess I'm generally confused about whether the =~ operator actually assigns the result of the search; i.e. whether

$var =~ /some_regex/;

changes the value of $var.

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Re^3: assigning regex matches to variables by jwkrahn (Abbot) on May 28, 2011 at 20:33 UTC
`$var =~ /some_regex/;` does not change the value of `$var`, it just searches through `$var` for the pattern `/some_regex/`.	[reply] [d/l] [select]