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Re: [Omaha.pm] /AAA|BBB/




On Feb 2, 2006, at 8:25 AM, Jay Hannah wrote:

Andy Lester wrote:
(2) What does this print (what does adding parens change)?:

Adding parens doesn't change anything as far as what matches or
doesn't.  It only captures the match.

Sure it does, sometimes. Parens allow for multi-character control of the | character while matching. That's why I always use them.

I meant in the two examples given, of /AAA|BBB/ and /(AAA|BBB)/

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