When you use the pipe character as your delimiter for the m// operator, you're screwing up the use of the pipe character as the "or" operator in your regex.
You'll either have to escape the pipe character (E.g. m|(A\|B)|) or use a different delimiter. -----Original Message----- From: Tom Allison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 5:44 PM To: Tom Allison Cc: beginners perl Subject: Re: regex... Tom Allison wrote: <snip> Breaking it down I get this: $string =~ /(?:(A|B))/ WORKS!!!! $string =~ m|(?:(A|B))| DOES NOT WORK $string =~ m%(?:http://)%; ALSO WORKS.... What's the magic screw-up that I'm pulling when I try to make a match with m| | instead of m% % or / / ????? <snip> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
