On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 08:37:07 +0100, manfred <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That leads me to a question :-) > > >> if ($num =~ /^(\d+)\#([^\#]*?)\#(?:e\+(\d+))?$/x) { > > What particular use has the _x_ modifier in this example? > I mean the hashes are escaped?
I forgot to remove the /x when I stripped the comments from the regex because if this was homework, I wanted the OP to work to understand it ;) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>