Work wrote:
>
> if($userinput =~ /^\s*y|(ok)/i) # nice
> {
> ...
> }
Going some way to prove that regexps are complicated (for me, anyway), this does
not do what I thought it would.
/foo|bar/ matches foo or bar, obviously.
/foo|(bar)/ (as in the yes/ok case above) matches totally different stuff.
Although I've only been using regexps for 4+ years, and don't remember seeing
this behaviour before. If I have seen it, I must have spurned it, thinking "I
must use parentheses better than that".
Jasper
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We got Deathstar (Deathstar),
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