Re: Unescaped Left Brace

2017-11-24 Thread Andy Bach
unless ($text =~ /[a-zA-Z\s]{10,}/s) { If you're here checking if $text has at least 10 letters/spaces, you don't need the range unless ($text =~ /[a-zA-Z\s]{10}/s) { does the same thing. There may well be more than 10 (one would hope so ;-) but the 2nd will match anyone the first will match and

Re: Unescaped Left Brace

2017-11-24 Thread Mike Flannigan
Thanks so much for pointing that out. After 15 years of Perl I am still learning, though much slower than before.  I still use Perl every day - most for mapping of cemeteries, caves, springs, etc.  But also for basic text manipulation and may other things.  It sure has served me well over these