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- From: ram@eiffel.com (Raphael Manfredi)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
- Subject: Re: Using $*, but pattern doesn't match
- Message-ID: <121@eiffel.eiffel.com>
- Date: 25 Aug 92 23:07:10 GMT
- References: <1992Aug25.181818.13613@advtech.uswest.com> <120@eiffel.eiffel.com> <1992Aug25.214517.555@news.eng.convex.com>
- Sender: ram@eiffel.com
- Organization: Interactive Software Engineering, Santa Barbara CA
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- Quoting tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) from comp.lang.perl:
- >From the keyboard of ram@eiffel.com (Raphael Manfredi):
- >:You have to use [.\n] if you want to match anything.
- >
- >Sorry, [] is a nonmagical zone, so your dot is a literal.
- >Often we use [^\0] to mean (just about) anything.
-
- Hmm... I meant (.|\n) obviously :-)
-
- > Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly...
- > --Larry Wall in <2969@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov>
-
- Your quote fits perfectly. Do you have an intelligent signature daemon
- behind your ~/.signature named pipe ? :-)
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