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. > >This is going off-topic... may I take the oppertunity to remind Jafhy >that he should recognise my name by now? If being subscribed to the >[EMAIL PROTECTED] list makes me a beginner... then I should qualify >to ask for help - and boy do I have one >:)
I'm not necessarily speaking to you -- I'm reminding anyone reading these messages that at no point do single quotes stop a regex from being a regex. [snip credentials] > I know what INTERPOLATION is, and the difference and similarities > between q, qq, qw, '' and "" etc. Maybe going on to talk about > s''' didn't follow on from the topic very well. Japhy, assume I > know a lot more than I seem to let on! :-) I was just afraid someone would come to the wrong conclusion based on your sentences. -- 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]
