On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 12:03:08PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I just discovered Regexp::Common today, and it's most excellent. But I'm having
> trouble using $RE{ comment }{ Java }. Apparently doing something like:
>
> grep /$RE{ comment }{ Java }/, <MY_JAVA_FILE>;
>
> only catches comments of the form:
>
> // . . .
>
> and misses comments of the form:
>
> /* . . .
> . . .
> */
>
> Is this a bug? Did I forget a prerequisite config thingy? Can someone please point
> out my luser error?
My guess is that grep() in that circumstance is reading line by line,
and you'd want to either slurp the file into a single scalar, or force
grep() to be greedy [this works with m// using the s modifier, but may
not with grep?].
I'm really not sure, tho.
Do you get any different results with:
my $entiretext = <MY_JAVA_FILE>;
grep /$RE{ comment }{ Java }/, $entiretext;
?
/joel
