Re: REGEXP removing - il- - -b-f and - il- - - - f

[JupiterHost.Net]

Ing. Branislav Gerzo wrote:
JupiterHost.Net [JN], on Thursday, April 28, 2005 at 09:11 (-0500)
contributed this to our collective wisdom:

(really beginners) could think "@a" will empty array, which is not
true.

JN> yes it is true, they are both empty lists:
@a will not empty array, here it is:
I never said it will empty a list, I'm talking about declaring it 
intially (IE my @a; vs. my @a = ();) when I brought it up.

# perl -mstrict -MData::Dumper -we 'my @x;my @y = ();print Dumper [EMAIL 
PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED];'
$VAR1 = [];
$VAR2 = [];
#
See? No differnece in the array, both *create* an empty list, just
 my @a; is slightly more efficient.
my @a = q{foo bar};
@a;
print @a;
against
my @a = q{foo bar};
@a = ( );
print @a;
I hope you see the difference :)
Yes the difference now you're not talking about declaring the array 
initially which is what this part of this lame thread is all about.

Apples and Oranges my friend :)
PS - I think you mean qw() not q() as you're only assigning one string 
of "foo bar" to the array...

# perl -mstrict -MData::Dumper -we 'my @x = q{foo bar};print Dumper [EMAIL 
PROTECTED];'
$VAR1 = [
          'foo bar'
        ];
#
vs.
# perl -mstrict -MData::Dumper -we 'my @x = qw(foo bar);print Dumper [EMAIL 
PROTECTED];'
$VAR1 = [
          'foo',
          'bar'
        ];
#
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