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Perl-Users Digest, Issue: 3923 Volume: 11
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Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2013 00:09:03 -0700 (PDT)
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Perl-Users Digest Sun, 14 Apr 2013 Volume: 11 Number: 3923
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Re: newbie: Problem with $ and \ in strings <uri@stemsystems.com>
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Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2013 00:26:26 -0400
From: Uri Guttman <uri@stemsystems.com>
Subject: Re: newbie: Problem with $ and \ in strings
Message-Id: <87obdh4u19.fsf@stemsystems.com>
>>>>> "JWK" == John W Krahn <jwkrahn@example.com> writes:
JWK> Ben Morrow wrote:
>> You don't ever want to use /o. Since perl 5.6 (a very long time ago)
>> perl precompiles all regexes, so /o will do no good and may do some
>> harm.
JWK> The /o option only applies if variables are interpolated in the
JWK> regular expression, but there are no variables in this case, so the /o
JWK> option is superfluous.
and with qr// operator, the /o option is totally obsolete. you can
control when a regex is compiled yourself and don't need /o to tell perl
not to recompile it again.
uri
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