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  1. Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!noc.near.net!nic.umass.edu!news.mtholyoke.edu!jbotz
  3. From: jbotz@mtholyoke.edu (Jurgen Botz)
  4. Subject: Re: Perl & manipulating large texts
  5. Message-ID: <BzG0rG.LoB@mtholyoke.edu>
  6. Sender: news@mtholyoke.edu (USENET News System)
  7. Organization: Mount Holyoke College
  8. References: <BzF1Cn.M1t@mtholyoke.edu>
  9. Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 06:59:39 GMT
  10. Lines: 10
  11.  
  12. Correction to my previous post:
  13.  
  14. In article <BzF1Cn.M1t@mtholyoke.edu> jbotz@mtholyoke.edu (Jurgen Botz) writes:
  15. >  $* = 1;
  16. >  while (/$pat/) {
  17. >    $match = $&;
  18. >    $_ = $_;       <<<<========= should of course be: $_ = $' 
  19. >    &do_something_with($match);
  20. >    $pat = &next_pat();
  21. >   }
  22.