On Jun 14, 2007, at 12:49 PM, Jorge Almeida wrote:
Martin was right (and I should have seen it from the start). The "will go ahead as much as possible" is true only in the sense that the greatest possible string of non-digits will be selected for deletion. With '$s=~s/\D*//;' in line 5 that string will be empty. In order to delete the trailing string, the '/g' is needed (but I knew that, as I said in the original post).
Oh I am sorry, I replied too quick and didn't read that part. The use of two s/// in a row hinted to me that there was a naive use s/// there missing /g. Clearly that was not the case and the question was different.
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