On Aug 16, 2011 9:48 PM, "John W. Krahn" <jwkr...@shaw.ca> wrote: > > Joseph L. Casale wrote: >> >> What is the correct way to quickly assign the result of a regex against >> a cmdline arg into a new variable: >> >> my $var = ($ARGV[0] =~ s/(.*)foo/$1/i); > > > my ( $var ) = $ARGV[0] =~ /(.*)foo/i;
IIRC, that rederines $ARGV as well. I think (my $var = $ARGV) =~ /(.+)foo/; might be better.
