[Omaha.pm] Fwd: weird perl bug

[Jay Hannah]

On Nov 19, 2010, at 10:48 AM, Andy Lester wrote:
>    $text =~ m/\"Because of Winn\-Dixie\"/
> 
> because he is afraid that " and - have to be escaped in a regular expression.  They do not.

You have to be careful with - inside sets though. Sometimes that - does need to be escaped.  :)

my $string = "123-abc";
print $string =~ /^[123abc]+$/   ? "y" : "n";
print $string =~ /^[123-abc]+$/  ? "y" : "n";
print $string =~ /^[123\-abc]+$/ ? "y" : "n";

nny

Jay Hannah
Software Architect
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