On 2/2/07, oryann9 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I am aware of the bit | operator
Perl does have a bitwise operator whose name is the vertical pipe character; but the one under discussion is the regular expression operator whose name is the vertical pipe character. Both uses treat the vertical bar as something that means "or", but in very different ways. Inside a regular expression, the vertical bar metacharacter denotes alternative matches; one side matches "or" the other. In ordinary Perl expressions, the vertical bar operator denotes the arithmetic bitwise-OR operation. Hope this helps! --Tom Phoenix Stonehenge Perl Training -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
