To David & the group,
Wags <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What version of Perl are running and on what OS
BBedit under Panther (OSX) Mac -- Berkeley BSD Unix
perl v5.8.1
> >
> > ## This Does what _not_ do what I would expect -- return the first 3
> > characters of type '\w'
> >
> > $tmp ="Joe Smore1qazxswedcvfrtgbnhytujmkilptyoXXXXt5000";
> > $tmp =~ s/(^\w{3})(.*)/$1/;
> > print "$tmp\n";
> I ran it and it displayed Joe. I am running under Windows XP and Perl is
> AS 5.8.4 ( 810 ).
So the above code in Windows XP does what I expected? Not on my Apple G4!
> Are you running with strict and warnings?
No
> Exactly what did your code that you ran look like?
The above code returned $tmp containing :
"Joe Smore1qazxswedcvfrtgbnhytujmkilptyoXXXXt5000"
No change, that's what has me puzzled
This is all the code...
> You have given a paste, but what other code is there?
> I would leave the ^ outside, but as stated, my print put out Joe.
>
> Wags ;)
Regards,
DG
(kora musician / audiophile / webmaster @ www.coraconnection.com / Ft. Worth,
TX, USA)
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