On May 10, Jonathan E. Paton said: >and hence the magic of using single quotes doesn't work as you'd expect. >It does get you out of other trouble though: > >s'$%@|'replacement'; > >where you'd otherwise spend all day backslashing things.
All single quotes do is stop INTERPOLATION. Interpolation is not the issue with regex metacharacters. -- 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]
