On Apr 9, Nikola Janceski said: >Why are there still no empty elements in the returned array for the items >that didn't match the pattern?
>> No; as my post stated, doing LIST = map BLOCK LIST; puts BLOCK in list >> context. A regex in list context will return the parenthetical >> captures if it succeeded, and () if it failed: Because a regex does not return undef or '' in list context, it returns (), an empty list, a list of ZERO elements. -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ ** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by Manning, in 2002 ** <stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course. [ I'm looking for programming work. If you like my work, let me know. ] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
