Re: difficulty with matching

2018-06-02 Thread perl
Very useful advice, Shlomi; thanks! > On Jun 2, 2018, at 3:57 AM, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > On Fri, 1 Jun 2018 15:54:55 -0500 > Rick T mailto:p...@reason.net>> wrote: > >> This is a newbie question, I’m sure. But I get perplexed easily! >> >> The follow code segment expects to receive a $student

Re: difficulty with matching

2018-06-02 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Fri, 1 Jun 2018 15:54:55 -0500 Rick T wrote: > This is a newbie question, I’m sure. But I get perplexed easily! > > The follow code segment expects to receive a $student_id consisting of a > surname followed by a hyphen followed by a number. The die is for testing > what I’m doing. > > If I