Hi Ruud, On 6/1/06, Dr.Ruud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
"David Romano" schreef:> [ $pattern = '\w\s\w' ] > You also need to [...] escape the slashes for the pattern you're > using I don't think that is needed: (1) perl -le '$re = q{\w\s\w} ; print qr/$re/' (2) perl -le '$re = q{\\w\\s\\w} ; print qr/$re/' (on Windows you'll need to change the outer quotes to dquotes) Both will print: (?-xism:\w\s\w). Try also: perl -le 'print q{\\w\\s\\w}' perl -le 'print q{\w\s\w}' that both print: \w\s\w.
Yep, you're right. Looking at it again, my only excuse is that it was 4 in the morning. When I was writing that, I forgot what I learned from the Llama book that only \' and \\ work between single-quotes (thus the suggestion to change "c:\backup.pl" to "c:\\backup.pl" instead of 'c:\backup.pl'). Thanks again for pointing out where I erred :-) David -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
