I think he must be using the x modifier.
p148 of Camel 3rd Edn - "\x allows spaces, tabs and newlines for formatting,
just like regular Perl code. It also allows the # character, not normally
special in a pattern, to introduce a comment that extends through the end of
the current line within the pattern string. If you want to match ... the #
character, then you'll have to ... escape it with a backslash ..."
Rgds, GStC.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Offer Kaye" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Perl Beginners" <beginners@perl.org>
Sent: Monday, June 06, 2005 3:14 AM
Subject: Re: Search Pattern Question: What does # mean?
On 6/6/05, Siegfried Heintze wrote:
I'm using regular expressions to parse job titles and I had C# in a
pattern
and it was not working correctly. I corrected the problem with C\#. What
does C# match?
"#" has no special meaning in REs (it's not a metacharacter), so you
would have to show us some code that fails with the above pattern.
Off-hand I can't think of any reason why "C\#" would match while "C#"
would not.
Regards,
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Offer Kaye
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