> You can also use this bizarre construction to capture just the count: > > $_ = "ABabcde12345BAABabcde1234blahblah5BA"; > $count = () = $_=~ /(AB.*?BA)/g; > print "I matched $count times\n"' > > the () between the two ='s forces the match to list context, and then > THAT is forced to scalar context by setting it to $count. Whee!
That can't possibly work. There's no command to open the matchbox, so how can you count the matches? Sorry, last day of work for the year. R. _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list Perl-Win32-Users@listserv.ActiveState.com To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
