Newbie answer here - if you change the line my $string = 'I love c++';
to be my $string = 'I love c\++'; it runs, but, you also get this output : C:\SCRIPTS\test>perl lovec.pl some compare string does not contain I love c\++ DerekB -----Original Message----- From: John W. Krahn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 25 June 2003 20:03 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Regex problem "Beau E. Cox" wrote: > > Hi All - Hello, > This script: > > use strict; > use warnings; > > my $string = 'I love c++'; > my $compare = 'some compare string'; > if ($compare =~ /$string/) { > print "$compare contains $string\n"; > } else { > print "$compare does not contain $string\n"; > } > > gives this error: > > Nested quantifiers in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/I love c++ <-- HERE / > at t.pl line 6. > > It's the '+'s. I've tried escaping them '\+' but then > the regex matches on '\+'. I don't understand what is > happening. > > This is occuring in a script that's manipulating > files; file names with '+'s fail on this error. Is there any > way I can fix this before I fall back to substrings and > 'eq'/'ne' compares (ugh). It's obvious! Anyone who claims to "love" C++ is in deep trouble. :-) John -- use Perl; program fulfillment -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ Meteor web site http://www.meteor.ie ************************************************************************ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
