Thanks to the people who promptly replied. I have two quick follow-up questions:
1) What does "s/\s*$/\./" do? (see email below) 2) What are the differences between: $string .= '.' unless $string =~ /[$!.]+$/; (suggested in another email) and $title =~ s/\s*$/\./ unless $title =~ /[!?.]\s*$/; Chris -----Original Message----- From: Ing. Branislav Gerzo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2005 2:54 PM To: beginners@perl.org Subject: Re: Checking last character of string for punctuation Chris Schults [CS], on Wednesday, February 2, 2005 at 14:39 (-0800) wrote the following: CS> However, some of my titles and subtitles end with punctuation ("?", "!", CS> ".", "..."). Thus, I end up with: Am I a title that ends with punctuation?. CS> Do-oh!. my $title = 'This is just test '; $title =~ s/\s*$/\./ unless $title =~ /[!?.]\s*$/; print $title; enjoy:) -- ...m8s, cu l8r, Brano. [Confucius Says: Those who quote me are fools.] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
