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Postings from February 2004
It was Monday, February 23, 2004 when perl-5.8.0@ton.iguana.be (via RT) took the soap box, saying: : perl -wle '@F="A".."BZ"; $_="a"; s/./<$F[@a="b"..$&]>/; print; print"a=@a"' : Argument "b" isn't numeric in range (or flop) at -e line 1. : Use of uninitialized value in range (or flop) at -e line 1. : Use of uninitialized value in range (or flop) at -e line 1. : <B> : a=0 If I add a /e modifier on the end of your s///, and fix up the replacement section, I get the following: perl -wle '@F="A".."BZ"; $_="a"; s/./join $F[@a="b"..$&], "<", ">"/e; print; print"a=@a"' <Z> a=b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z : I expected $& to be "a", so @a should become (a b c ....z), so fetch : element 26 from @F, which should be "Z" I think that I got what you expected. When you want to evaluate code in a regular expression you must add the /e modifier. I think that this is notabug. Am I missing something? Casey West -- Good Idea: Taking a deep breath before jumping into a swimming pool. Bad Idea: Taking a deep breath after jumping into a swimming pool.Thread Previous | Thread Next