Re: RFC 112 (v1) Assignment within a regex

2000-08-17 Thread Kevin Walker
I think hash assignment within regex's would be more useful than variable assignment (though there's no reason there couldn't be both, I suppose). Here's a copy of something I sent to p5p a while back: I suggest that (?%field_name: pattern) spit out 'field_name', in addition to the matched p

Re: RFC 143 (v1) Case ignoring eq and cmp operators

2000-08-24 Thread Kevin Walker
>Perl currently only has C and C operators which work >case-sensitively. >It would be a useful addition to add case-insensitive equivalents. I think this is an excellent idea. I personally would find it very useful. > $a eq/i $b > $a cmp/i $b > >This still leaves some room for future additi