On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 10:14:00PM +0100, Egor Brandt wrote:
> #!/usr/bin/perl -w
> while ( < i am fred flintstone >) {
The text between the angle brackets is not what you're matching against;
it's either a filehandle that you're reading from, or a globbing pattern to
match files against in the current directory. Not having Learning Perl on
hand I couldn't tell you which, but I'm guessing it's a filehandle to read
from.
If the text doesn't explain what that construct means then it should have
already been established. Flip back through the book and read about
filehandles.
> if (/\b(fred|wilma)\s+flintstone\b/) {
> print "matched: |$`<$&>$'|\n";
> } else {
> print "no match.\n";
> }
> }
Michael
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