Front page | perl.perl5.porters |
Postings from November 2011
Re: Bug on perlre doc?
Thread Previous
From:
Alberto Simões
Date:
November 3, 2011 10:18
Subject:
Re: Bug on perlre doc?
Message ID:
4EB2CCE5.6090001@alfarrabio.di.uminho.pt
On 03/11/2011 16:51, Abigail wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 04:21:12PM +0000, Alberto Simões wrote:
>> Hello
>>
>> Perlre includes:
>>
>> "(?(condition)yes-pattern|no-pattern)"
>> "(?(condition)yes-pattern)"
>>
>> But I think the ? is after the (), as in the example below?
>>
>> m{ ( \( )?
>> [^()]+
>> (?(1) \) )
>> }x
>>
>
>
> No, it's correct. I guess the example can be improved but it's
> all about the third line:
>
> (?(1) \) )
>
> Which has the same syntax as the spec.
>
> It would have been much better if the example wasn't about matching
> parenthesis.
And if there weren't some extra ? :)
Thanks, Abigail.
--
Alberto Simoes
CEHUM
Thread Previous