[sf-perl] Unmatched [ in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/[ <-- HERE NO/
David Fetter
david at fetter.org
Mon Jan 15 15:53:01 PST 2007
On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 04:31:11PM -0700, Loo, Peter # PHX wrote:
>
> Hello,
Hi
> I am getting the following error when I hit the following record when trying
> to m// the field "[NO".
>
> my $field = substr($_, $offset, $length);
>
> elsif ($field =~ m/^[0-9]*\s+[0-9]$/ || $field =~ m/\W+/) {
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This is better written as
$field =~ m(
\A # Start
\d* # 0 or more digits
\s+ # some whitespace
\d # a digit
\z # End
)mx
> When I leave in the part "|| $field =~ m/\W+/)" the error goes away, but
> without this, I am getting an error.
It would help a lot if you sent a self-contained example that we could
test :)
Cheers,
D (who just hates working too hard)
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