Chris Schults wrote:
Thanks to the people who promptly replied.
I have two quick follow-up questions:
1) What does "s/\s*$/\./" do? (see email below)
It effectively puts a period at the end of the string, while deleting
any extra spaces at the end.
2) What are the differences between:
$string .=
s $title =~ /[!?.]\s*$/;
Chris
-Original Message-
From: Ing. Branislav Gerzo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2005 2:54 PM
To: beginners@perl.org
Subject: Re: Checking last character of string for punctuation
Chris Schults [CS], on Wednesday, February 2, 2005 at 14:
Chris Schults [CS], on Wednesday, February 2, 2005 at 14:39 (-0800)
wrote the following:
CS> However, some of my titles and subtitles end with punctuation ("?", "!",
CS> ".", "..."). Thus, I end up with: Am I a title that ends with punctuation?.
CS> Do-oh!.
my $title = 'This is just test ';
$tit
On Wednesday 02 February 2005 22:39, Chris Schults wrote:
> Howdy all. I'm a newbie with a newbie question. I assume that I'm in the
> right place.
Yes, thie does sound consistent. ;-)
> I need to update some code a developer programmed for my organization.
>
> The purpose of the code is really b
Subject: Checking last character of string for punctuation
Howdy all. I'm a newbie with a newbie question. I assume that I'm in the
right place.
I need to update some code a developer programmed for my organization.
The purpose of the code is really basic. It simply prints: $title.
Howdy all. I'm a newbie with a newbie question. I assume that I'm in the
right place.
I need to update some code a developer programmed for my organization.
The purpose of the code is really basic. It simply prints: $title.
$subtitle.
However, some of my titles and subtitles end with punctuation
