Well, I guess it needs to be avaluated since it is part of Parse::RecDescent Grammar. According to Parse::RecDescent docs all backslashes need to be escaped.
Max -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Philip S Tellis Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 10:54 PM To: 'HTML::Template List' Subject: RE: [htmltmpl] Cyrillic arguments in HTML::Template::Expr functions Sometime on Mar 7, MaxG assembled some asciibets to say: > var : /\\w\\w*/ { \\\$item[1] } # \w stands for aplphanumeric plus "_" the double backslash means match a literal backslash, so it should match \ w \ zero or more w (a backslash followed by w followed by backslash followed by zero or more w I don't understand how it works, unless this is a string that's being evaluated before being used as a regex. In any case, what is written as aa* in other regex languages is written as a+ in perl, so you just want \w+ Philip ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Etnus, makers of TotalView, The debugger for complex code. Debugging C/C++ programs can leave you feeling lost and disoriented. TotalView can help you find your way. Available on major UNIX and Linux platforms. Try it free. www.etnus.com _______________________________________________ Html-template-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/html-template-users ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Etnus, makers of TotalView, The debugger for complex code. Debugging C/C++ programs can leave you feeling lost and disoriented. TotalView can help you find your way. Available on major UNIX and Linux platforms. Try it free. www.etnus.com _______________________________________________ Html-template-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/html-template-users
