Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!ogicse!iwarp.intel.com!news From: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal L. Schwartz) Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl Subject: Re: Patterns vs Strings Message-ID: <1991Feb7.220532.26408@iwarp.intel.com> Date: 7 Feb 91 22:05:32 GMT References: <121642@uunet.UU.NET> <1991Feb07.210023.8308@convex.com> Sender: news@iwarp.intel.com Reply-To: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal L. Schwartz) Organization: Stonehenge; netaccess via Intel, Beaverton, Oregon, USA Lines: 14 In-Reply-To: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) In article <1991Feb07.210023.8308@convex.com>, tchrist@convex (Tom Christiansen) writes: | I don't think you can use m`bar` for qx// action, but | neither can I think of why you'd ever want it to. 1) It works. (Well, the s`foo`bar` form works.) 2) For a JAPH, of course! s`^`echo Just another Perl hacker, >&2`; -- /=Randal L. Schwartz, Stonehenge Consulting Services (503)777-0095 ==========\ | on contract to Intel's iWarp project, Beaverton, Oregon, USA, Sol III | | merlyn@iwarp.intel.com ...!any-MX-mailer-like-uunet!iwarp.intel.com!merlyn | \=Cute Quote: "Intel: putting the 'backward' in 'backward compatible'..."====/