>>>>> ""D" == "Wagner, David <--- Sr Programmer Analyst --- CFS" >>>>> <david.wag...@fedex.com>> writes:
"D> ! ($word =~ m/^[aeiouy]+&/gi or $word =~ m/^[bcdfghjklmnpqrstvwxz]+&/gi) "D> This forces a start and end of on $word and I like the positive of if ONLY vowels plus Y or ONLY consonants. SO it is one way of doing it. i think you mean $ and not & in those regexes. & has no meaning in a regex. also the /g is useless there since you aren't matching the same text in scalar context in a loop (each match is against a new word). uri -- Uri Guttman -- uri AT perlhunter DOT com --- http://www.perlhunter.com -- ------------ Perl Developer Recruiting and Placement Services ------------- ----- Perl Code Review, Architecture, Development, Training, Support ------- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
