Hello Christopher,
Sunday, August 26, 2001, Christopher Solomon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >> p.s. does anyone know, why i can not write "$a =~ s/$///g;" ?
>>
>> CS> You can.
>>
>> CS> $a =~ s!$/!!g;
>>
>> CS> Perl just gets confused with the /'s, you have to use alternate
>> CS> delimiters.
>> ok, what about "$!" ? use @? what about "$@"?
>> and so on...
CS> I guess just use whatever delimiters won't get caught up in the variable
CS> name. You can use (I believe) any non-alphanumeric character as a regex
CS> delimiter. I like !, /, ^, and {} personally.
:) what if i don't know variable name?
$! is $OS_ERROR, $ERRNO
$/ is $INPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR, $RS
$^ is $FORMAT_TOP_NAME
well, ${ unassigned now...
Best wishes,
Maxim mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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