On Sun, 18 Mar 2018 12:32:44 +0100
hw <h...@adminart.net> wrote:
> John SJ Anderson <j...@genehack.org> writes:
>
> >> But this one in its place does not work:
> >> if ($link =~ m/\/([^/]*)$/) { # Oddly this does not work
> >
> > You still need to escape the `/` inside the character class.
> >
> > This works in my testing: `m/\/([^\/]*)$/`.
> >
> > IMO this is a case where an alternative delimiter for `m//` — such as the
> > `#` in your working example — is a better approach.
>
> IIRC it´s said in best practises or so that brackets ({, }) should be
> used for an alternative delimiter and that they should probably be the
> only substitute to use.
>
I don't blindly follow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl_Best_Practices and
disagree about this. I find it useful to use #, % and other delimiters which do
not naturally occur in regexes or otherwise.
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