The perlop document under "s/PATTERN/REPLACEMENT/msixpogce" says "Any non-whitespace delimiter may replace the slashes."
I take this to mean that any non-whitespace character may be used instead of a slash. However, I am finding that some non-whitespace characters cause errors. For example, using a "¶" or "§" character instead of a slash causes an error, such as "Bareword found where operator expected" or "Number found where operator expected". When I use a "/", "#", or ",", I get no error. Here is a script that demonstrates this problem: #!/usr/bin/perl -w use warnings 'FATAL', 'all'; use strict; use utf8; my $string = '123456789'; print "The original string is $string\n"; $string =~ s§3(456)7§$1§; print "The amended string is $string\n"; -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
