Re: regexp /g question

2007-08-22 Thread Chas Owens
On 8/22/07, Alexandru Maximciuc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > could someone please explain me these results: snip > print "1) ".scalar($_ =~ /$re/g)."\n"; > my @a = $_ =~ /$re/g; > print "1) ".scalar(@a)."\n"; snip > 1) 1 > 1) 12 snip The issue is scalar vs list context and its effect on

Re: regexp /g question

2007-08-21 Thread yitzle
Explained here: http://perldoc.perl.org/perlop.html#Regexp-Quote-Like-Operators-operator%2c-regexp On 8/22/07, Alexandru Maximciuc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > could someone please explain me these results: > > > use strict; > use warnings; > > my $re = qr!a!; > > $