[Purdue-pm] smart matching in Perl

[Joe Kline]

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On 02/25/2011 03:29 PM, Mark Senn wrote:
> The '~~' is used to do smart matching in Perl.  I like smart match.
> 
> I'm working on a program that needs to run on Perl 5.10 and 5.12 (don't
> ask).  I'd love to use Perl's smart match to do it but that won't work
> in 5.10.  Below is a program to demonstrate two ways of getting an
> answer.  I don't claim either of these are optimal.    -mark
> 
> #!/usr/local/bin/perl
> 
> @re = (
>     qr /^a$/,
>     qr /^b$/
> );
> 

(forgot to send to the list...)

Mark,

which version of 5.10 are you using?

There is a bug in 5.10.0 that doesn't handle an array of compiled
regexes properly.

It was fixed in 5.10.1.

That's just a guess on my part (from personal experience)

http://perlmonks.com/?node_id=880672

joe
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