Bennett Haselton wrote:
> Since according to p. 25 of "Programming Perl" by Wall, "." stands for "any
> character except newline" and "\n" stands for "newline", and [<set>]
> matches "any character in <set>", I thought you could use "[.\n]" to match
> "any character":
>
You could use the /s modificator (in substitutions, like
s/bla(.)/blo$1/s; in
matching, m/bla./s ) (camel book, p. 153).
Or you can use the deprecated $*. (Not recommended).
TIMTOWTDI,
Cheers,
Jose
>
> >>>
> $string = 'abc';
> if ($string =~ /([.\n])/)
> {
> print "yes: $1\n";
> }
> else
> {
> print "no\n";
> }
> >>>
>
> But this prints out "no". It turns out that inside the square brackets,
> "." represents the period character and not "any character"; if you change
> string to "a.bc", the script print "yes: ." . In that case, how do you
> represent "any character" inside a regexp?
>
> -Bennett
>
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