Re: [Boston.pm] regular expressions - qr//i

2003-09-26 Thread Jeremy Muhlich
On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 12:25, Jeremy Muhlich wrote: > On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 11:48, Ron Newman wrote: > > my $r2 = qr/this/x; > > I can't think of any way to override that from "outside" those parens. Well, you *could* do: lc($s) =~ $r2 but I figure that't not really what you're looking for...

Re: [Boston.pm] regular expressions - qr//i

2003-09-26 Thread Jeremy Muhlich
On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 11:48, Ron Newman wrote: > my $r2 = qr/this/x; If you print out $r2, you'll see: (?x-ism:this) So perl is applying the /x modifier by setting the x flag and unsetting the ism flags in a group that encompasses the entire pattern. I can't think of any way to override that