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Re: When you first encountered Perl, which feature amazed you the most?

by dsheroh (Monsignor)
on Mar 04, 2025 at 09:26 UTC ( [id://11164134]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to When you first encountered Perl, which feature amazed you the most?

Voted regexes, but it was actually the other way around. I had developed a taste for vi and started learning about regexes to give me additional vi tricks, then discovered that there was a programming language which also had exceptional regex support and checked out Perl to see what it had to offer.

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