RE: [FWP] A tiny bit of fun with a regex

[lr@hpl.hp.com]

> From: Brand Hilton [mailto:bhilton@adc.com]
> Sent: Thursday, August 12, 1999 13:46
> To: fwp@technofile.org
> Subject: [FWP] A tiny bit of fun with a regex
>
>
> Okay, so this doesn't exactly require a PhD to find, but I did find it
> mildly amusing.  If you want it to be at all challenging, you can't
> run it with -w or use strict.
>
>   $_ = 'The score was 2/0 in the second inning.';
>   print "found it\n" if /\d+
>                          \/
>                          \d+  # find something of the pattern y/x
>                         /x

Without -w or use strict, I see a division of 1 by the value of the
bareword 'x', which is undoubtedly 0, so a run-time exception.

What do I win?

--
Larry Rosler
Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Larry_Rosler/
lr@hpl.hp.com



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