On Mon, 5 Jan 2015, Bowie Bailey wrote:
On 1/5/2015 4:13 PM, John Hardin wrote:
On Mon, 5 Jan 2015, Bowie Bailey wrote:
> You can avoid having to escape the slash (/) by using a different
> separator for the regex. This can avoid "leaning toothpick syndrome."
>
> For example:
> m#http://match/this/url/#
Ouch. # won't work for that (in SA at least) as it comments out the rest
of the RE.
Ack! Forgot about that minor difference with SA. # is my general go-to
character for that in normal Perl scripts.
This should illustrate the same point with the minor improvement of actually
*working* in SA:
m^http://match/this/url/^
I tend to avoid using symbols that are syntactically significant in REs
for that purpose. In your example, you can't then anchor the RE at the
beginning of the URL because ^ has been repurposed as the RE delimiter.
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