Re: regexp trouble

[Brett W. McCoy]

On Mon, 7 May 2001, Jeff Pinyan wrote:

> You're also using \2 on the right-hand side (RHS) of a s///, which is not
> safe.  You should use $2.
>
>   s/^[A-Za-z]+_//;
>
> does far less work.

Yeah, I realized that after I already sent the reply.  It's what I get for
popping off replies with insufficient amounts of coffee.

-- Brett
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