[tpm] I wish I was better at regex's

[Shaun Fryer]

actually, it doesn't work. there're a few I didn't notice which get truncated...
still working on it. interesting problem... :)
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On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 1:58 PM, Fulko Hew <fulko.hew at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 1:48 PM, Shaun Fryer <sfryer at sourcery.ca> wrote:
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>> my $strip = qr{;[^\;]+$};
>> while (<DATA>) {
>>    chomp;
>>    $_ =~ s/$strip//;
>>    print $_, "\n";
>> }
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> Congratulations Shaun, you win the prize! (a free beer at the next meeting),
> but.
> can you explain it to me? and why it manages to avoid quotes;
> I don't see how it does what it does.
> ... just another sign that is time to retire :-(
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