Jayakumar Rajagopal wrote: > hi friends, > in regexp, I feel \s and \b behaves same. > can someone send me a contradiction ?
no they are not the same. there are many cases they behave differently. for example: #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; $_ = "perl is great"; print '\b success',"\n" if(/great\b/); print '\s success',"\n" if(/great\s/); __END__ prints: \b success david -- s$s*$+/<tgmecJ"ntgR"tgjvqpC"vuwL$;$;=qq$ \x24\x5f\x3d\x72\x65\x76\x65\x72\x73\x65 \x24\x5f\x3b\x73\x2f\x2e\x2f\x63\x68\x72 \x28\x6f\x72\x64\x28\x24\x26\x29\x2d\x32 \x29\x2f\x67\x65\x3b\x70\x72\x69\x6e\x74 \x22\x24\x5f\x5c\x6e\x22\x3b\x3b$;eval$; -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
