Re: string change problem

[James Edward Gray II]

On Mar 29, 2004, at 11:02 AM, Smoot Carl-Mitchell wrote:

On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 15:05:34 +0530
"MuthuKumar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
        $name =~ s/\W.*//;      #change 1
This RE deletes zero or more non-alphanumeric characters followed by
anything.
So it deletes the entire string, since there was no match on a
non-alphanumeric character.
Half-right.  ;)  It deletes nothing, since there was no match...

James

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