Actually, I didn't write the code. It was written by someone else whom no longer works at our company.
Keep up with my goings on at http://theillien.blogspot.com Paul Lalli wrote: > On Jun 23, 4:18 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mathew Snyder) wrote: >> You'll notice in the section that creates the filehandle I have a statement >> that >> says "next if $address =~ m/^#/gmx;". I had to escape the "#". Can anyone >> tell >> me why that is? It isn't a special character for regexes that I've ever >> seen used. > > You need to read > perldoc perlre > > It's special because for some reason you chose to use the /x > modifier. This modifier allows you to use both whitespace and > comments inside your regular expressions. > > Since you obviously don't know what the /x modifier does, why are you > using it? Blindly typing code that you don't understand is a really > bad way to program. > > Paul Lalli > > P.S. (Yes, I know PBP recommends always using /mxs, but anyone who > uses /msx on every regexp because PBP recommends it should at least > read enough of PBP to know *why* its recommended) > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
