> From: David L. Nicol [mailto:david@kasey.umkc.edu] > Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2000 17:15 > To: John Porter > Cc: fwp@technofile.org > Subject: Re: [FWP] IP address regex golf > > > > You meant this, right? (haven't got 5.6 running on anything here yet) > > > require 5.6; > > $a = eval "v$_"; # assuming string to test is in $_ > $b = v255.255.255.255; > print( ( $a | $b ) eq $a ? "Yes\n" : "No\n" ); ^^ $b -- Larry Rosler Hewlett-Packard Laboratories http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Larry_Rosler/ lr@hpl.hp.com ==== Want to unsubscribe from Fun With Perl? Well, if you insist... ==== Send email to <fwp-request@technofile.org> with message _body_ ==== unsubscribe