* Tobias Wolter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-06-01 17:33]: > On 2004-06-01T10:52:55+0100 (Tuesday), Jose Alves de Castro wrote: > > "How can I say that I want every single year after the one I > > have? It's impossible..." > > The > operator works quite well for a four-digit year.
Yeah, but that requires backing out of the pattern match into Perl context, as saving the required information isn't always easy either. Of course you could use such a numerical comparison in a Perl code subexpression as several people here have done, but that is also a switch of context. There may also be cases where the interface to some other part of code will only allow you to pass in a pattern, not a coderef or something else, and where re 'eval' is not enabled. There are definitely circumstances where using a regex to do numerical comparison is the best option. And anyway, did you notice what this list is called? -- Regards, Aristotle "If you can't laugh at yourself, you don't take life seriously enough."
