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Re: m//g behaves strange...by converter (Priest) |
on Nov 09, 2003 at 21:54 UTC ( [id://305723]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
In scalar context m//g doesn't return size of the list it would give back when called in list context, If you want the number of elements in the list returned by a pattern with the /g modifier when evaluated in list context, you can use a list assignment in scalar context, which produces the number of its elements. In this case, we assign to an empty list:
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