[sf-perl] Plucking from a string

[David Fetter]

On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 07:30:05AM -0700, Neil Heller wrote:
> Just one more question.
> 
> In the line:
> 
> while ($theline =~ /($TARGETSTR\d+)/gi) {  print "$1\n"; }
> 
> why is the d+ escaped?
> 

It's not "d+ escaped."  It actually reads as "digit" (\d), "one or
more of" (+)

Cheers,
David.
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