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Re: [MacPerl-AnyPerl] Mac to linux perl problem
At 17.13 -0500 2000.03.12, Ronald J Kimball wrote:
>> if (s/\b(\d)(\d\d)(19)(\d\d)/\b0\1\/\2\/\4,/g) {
> ^^
>> } else {
>> (s/\b(\d\d)(\d\d)(19)(\d\d)/\b\1\/\2\/\4/g)
>\b is the escape character for backspace.
>(Except in regexes, where it's a word-boundary assertion.)
>[Except in character classes, where it's a backspace again.]
For clarification, the second part of a substitution regular expression is
NOT a regular expression at all. So the \b in the first part of a
substitution regex means word boundary (except in a character class, where
it is a backspace) and in the second part of the regex it is a backspace.
--
Chris Nandor mailto:pudge@pobox.com http://pudge.net/
%PGPKey = ('B76E72AD', [1024, '0824090B CE73CA10 1FF77F13 8180B6B6'])
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