Re: Learning Perl chpt.13 problem

[Brett W. McCoy]

On Tue, 19 Jun 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> I don't understand the regex s#.*/##s
>
> (given as part of the solution to problems 2 and 3)
>
> more specifically, I don't know what the last 's' does
> to the regex.

It lets . match a newline (\n).  It also will make the match ignore $*
-- which you shouldn't be using anyway :-)

-- Brett
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