>From the fingers of Ben Laurie flowed the following:
>
>Rodent of Unusual Size wrote:
>>
>> From the fingers of Dean Gaudet flowed the following:
>> >
>> >But $0 == "nph-foobar.cgi" is a theoretical possibility.
>>
>> Yes indeed - which is successfully matches by m:^(.*/)*nph-[^/]*$:
>> as expected.
>
>I feel impelled to point out that ^(.*/)* is the same as /. Isn't it? As in
>m:/nph-[^/]*$ (given that URLs always start with a /).
No, it's not the same. "^(.*/)*" means "start of line followed by
ZERO or more occurrences of (anything ending in a slash)." And
while URLs (absolute ones, anyway) begin with a slash, $0 in a Perl
programme is a filename, not a URL.
[I've been trying to send this for about ten hours, but my SP is
busy biting the galactic muffin. Time for a new one.. }-( ]
#ken :-)}
