On 27 Aug 2002, Uri Guttman wrote:
: >>>>> "LW" == Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
:   LW>     m{^\s*[
:   LW>         "$stuff:=(.*?)" |
:   LW>          $stuff:=(\S+)
:   LW>     ]};
: 
: couldn't that be reduced to:
: 
:     m{^\s* $stuff := [ "(.*?)" | (\S+) ] };
: 
: the | will only return one of the grabbed chunks and the result of the
: [] group would be assigned to $stuff.

That too.

Larry

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