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Postings from March 2000
I have answered on pl.comp.lang.perl with one of my favorite one-liners
(how to sort list of <a href=...>name</a> lines by names:
print sort { ( $a =~ />(.*)</ )[0] cmp ( $b =~ />(.*)</ )[0] } <>;
- not very efficient but fits in one line :-) )
then friend of mine pointed to me, that perlop lies about =~'s return
value:
Binary "=~" binds a scalar expression to a pattern match.
[...]
or transliterated instead of the default $_. The return
value indicates the success of the operation.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Which is true only in scalar context - in list context it returns the same
value as patter match operator itself (well, I didn't check for operators
others than m// but I hope perl is consistent at last here :-) ).
I hope someone will fix perlop manpage in next revision (althought it is
very intuitive and I guess much people are using this not knowing it is
actually "undocumented feature" :-) ).
Greetings
--
Piotr Pi±tkowski, Kraków
perl -le 's**02).4&9%4^[./4(%2^0%2,^([#+%2&**y%& -;^[%"`-{ a%%s%%$_%ee'
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