Re: Things to remove

[Russ Allbery]

Bennett Todd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> The poster you are replying to said "I use this in one-liners, and it's
> _dead_ handy."; that conjures up the idioms like

>       perl -nle 'print if 1.. ?^$?' [filename]

> which barfs out only the header; replace "if" with "unless" and it
> chops the head off.

Why do you need one-time matching here?  /^$/ should work fine.

I've very rarely found cases where ?? was useful and // didn't work, and
never in regular code.

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Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED])             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>