Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!telxon!ping!gorpong
From: gorpong@ping.uucp (Gordon C. Galligher)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Need help with (\d+) problem (s/...(\d+)/$1/ not working?)
Message-ID: <1990Nov10.160720.7715@ping.uucp>
Date: 10 Nov 90 16:07:20 GMT
References: <1990Nov4.224658.21882@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU>
Organization: The 23rd. Century
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In article <1990Nov4.224658.21882@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU> telxon!ping!gorpong@uunet.uu.net writes:
>Something is a little strange either with the way that I am interpreting the
>manual page, or with Perl.  The mini-script:
[...confusion on \w+ mini-script deleted...]

Thank you all very much for your help; as is normally the case you are right
and I am stupid.

Well, this is another case where TFM and I were not on the same wavelength.
Of course the manual states that \w matches a word CHARACTER, not an entire
word, and the + just tells it to match more than one word character; and
that match would stop when a whitespace character came up.

I may have been able to see it if I had really LOOKED at my output.  I did
not see the fact that "stuff\t95" had been replaced with 95; or I may have
saved this group the trouble of this bandwidth.  My apologies.  Just as
a quick aside, what I wanted to do was:
	REPLACE one or more words followed by one or more whitespace
	        characters followed by one or more digits
	WITH	just the digits
Other than changing the s/// to m// and using $1 outside, is there any easy
way to do that from within a =~ expression?

(Did you recognize the s/\w+.../$1/ expression Larry? :-)

		-- Gordon.
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