Our fellow list member Denham wrote:
>Is there some way to set the special variable $/ to a regular expression
>such as (.+?):(\d+):(.*)
Well, man perlvar says:
perlvar> Remember: the value of $/ is a string, not a regexp.
perlvar> AWK has to be better for something :-)
>I am trying to process
On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 12:35:25PM +0200, Denham Eva wrote:
> Is there some way to set the special variable $/ to a regular expression
> such as (.+?):(\d+):(.*)
>From perlvar:
Remember: the value of "$/" is a string, not a
regex. awk has to be better for something. :-)
I await the reply
Hello Perl Gurus,
Is there some way to set the special variable $/ to a regular expression
such as (.+?):(\d+):(.*)
I have tried:
local $/ =~ m/(.+?):(\d+):(.*)/; # But cannot change $/;
local $/= /(.+?):(\d+):(.*)/; # Use of uninitialized value in pattern
match m//.
I am trying to p
