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Eric Brine
Date:
August 1, 2010 17:36
Subject:
Re: qr stringification: why are xism always present? I'm worried about backward compatibility
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AANLkTim=AWr_N2YP0o7Hi9BST65rx=bvw4HC2y0dk7dn@mail.gmail.com
On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 1:24 PM, karl williamson <public@khwilliamson.com>wrote:

> Perhaps an example will clarify things.  Currently if you say qr/foo/, the
> stringification is (?-xism:foo)
> If you instead say qr/foo/xm, the stringification is (?mx-is:foo).
>

my $re = qr/./;
/foo$re/s

Without the -s, the "." would match newline.
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