In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Brian Gerard wrote: > And the clouds parted, and Kevin Pfeiffer said... [...] >> If I don't escape the slash in the char class -- i.e. /([^\/]+)$/ -- I >> get this error: >> Unmatched [ in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/([ <-- HERE ^/ at ./test-0 >> line 7. >> >> This makes no sense to me (since this is Perl and not sed or >> something)... (implied Question 2) > > The reason is that you're using '/' as the delimiter for the m// operator, > and '/' isn't automatically escaped in a character class (it's not a > metacharacter). I got away with it because I was using '|' as the > delimiter in my substitution.
Oi! I though the char class was more or less immune to such things. I will make a note of this in my dusty brain. Thanks! -- Kevin Pfeiffer -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
