Chas Owens wrote: > On 5/16/07, Mathew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > snip >> What does gr() do? >> >> Mathew >> > > qr not gr. It is the quote regex operator. > > from perldoc perlop > qr/STRING/imosx > This operator quotes (and possibly compiles) its STRING as a > regular expression. STRING is interpolated the same way as > PATTERN in "m/PATTERN/". If "'" is used as the delimiter, no > interpolation is done. Returns a Perl value which may be > used > instead of the corresponding "/STRING/imosx" expression. >
Ahh, yes that would certainly work better. One of my concerns was using a bare string containing a space. While it may not break it could cause problems down the road. Something I'd like to avoid. Thanks Mathew -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
