<font face="courier new,monospace"><br></font><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 1:48 PM, Shaun Fryer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sfryer@sourcery.ca">sfryer@sourcery.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
my $strip = qr{;[^\;]+$};<br>
while (<DATA>) {<br>
chomp;<br>
$_ =~ s/$strip//;<br>
print $_, "\n";<br>
}<br></blockquote><div><br>Congratulations Shaun, you win the prize! (a free beer at the next meeting), but.<br>can you explain it to me? and why it manages to avoid quotes;<br>I don't see how it does what it does. <br>
... just another sign that is time to retire :-(<br><br></div></div><br>