On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 22:31 -0600, Dan Baker wrote:
> There must be some really odd stuff going on with html encoding or regx!
> Anyway, if I change my match to :: I can now catch the situation... not
> that I understand how a ' gets changed to ::
In Perl version 4, a single quote was use to de-reference a package.
For example:
#!/usr/bin/perl
# WARNING: Perl 4 syntax!
package pkg;
sub foo {}
package main;
pkg'foo();
__END__
There must be some sort of legacy conversion software running on your
system.
--
Just my 0.00000002 million dollars worth,
Shawn
"Where there's duct tape, there's hope."
Cross Time Cafe
"Perl is the duct tape of the Internet."
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