SV: SV: [FWP] What is regex

[patrik.grip-jansson@vv.se]

On Thu, 19 Jun 1999, Bill Jones wrote:
>>From: patrik.grip-jansson@vv.se
>>
>> stuff() if $data=~m/^JAPH/;
>>
>Why use ^ to match at 'start of string' ?

Your pseudo C code had a "substr(data,0,4)", which I assumed extracted the
first four character from a string. Hence the ^ in the perl expression...


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