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From: worley@compass.uucp (Dale Worley)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Need help with (\d+) problem (s/...(\d+)/$1/ not working?)
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Date: 7 Nov 90 15:44:34 GMT
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   From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)

   From: Dale Worley
   : ($a) = $string =~ s/\w+\s+(\d+)/$1/;

   Well, no, actually.  I've never made s/// do anything special in array context.
   Terminal laziness, I guess.

Duh.  I thought I used it, but it was really a m//, not an s///.
Memo to self:  Check code before posting it.

Dale Worley		Compass, Inc.			worley@compass.com
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