Re^4: palindrome using regular expressions

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in reply to Re^3: palindrome using regular expressions
in thread palindrome using regular expressions

exactly.

reverse is aware of its context; if you use it in string context ($reverse = reverse ...), it reverses the string; but if you use it in list context (print reverse ... or @array = reverse ..), it reverses the list (and does nothing if the list only has one element