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Abigail wrote: >It does. It tells me that pattern following the : neither enables, nor >disables /p. Whether /p is in effect is inherited from the enclosing >pattern. Right. Which means you don't know whether /p is enabled within that group. Contrary to your statement that it tells you exactly which flags are enabled. (As Avar pointed out, /p isn't a brilliant example of this issue, because it applies to an entire pattern match operation rather than to part of a pattern. But it's the only new flag that we've actually got, and perl *does* allow it to be specified in (?:) as if it had scoped effect.) > If he comes with '(?~-xm:PATTERN)', I'll >have to reply "well, that depends on the version of Perl you're running". You can't have a "-" in the (?^:) flag set. If you see (?^si:PATTERN), this tells you quite precisely that the /s and /i flags are on *and all other flags are off*. So /p is either off or non-existent, depending on the perl version, either situation having the same effect. -zeframThread Previous | Thread Next