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Re: [Omaha.pm] regex questions
>> $adj =~ s/^ $//;
On Apr 17, 2014, at 3:54 PM, Ben Howard <BHoward@neogen.com> wrote:
> I could be wrong, but since ^ matches the beginning of a line, and $ matches the end, it might be trying to remove empty lines.
It turns ' ' into ''.
> “Take $adj, and replace [beginning of line][end of line] with [].”
Not quite -- you needed a space in the middle there.
> Maybe it’s one of Perl’s magic operators that sort of coerce a behavior by forcing context changes, but that’s how I read it.
No magic.
Well, Perl is *always* magic. But nothing especially so here. ;)
j
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