Re: problematice metashar regexp

[gjb]

One of the things that may go wrong is that you substitute in the result of a substitution. Consider the first character 'h', it's replaced by '^', but '^' can in turn be replaced by '~', depending on the order of the keys, something you don't control in a hash. Maybe this effect is intentional, but if not, it could be the source of your problem. If so, replace the global substitution by a while over the characters of the string.

Hope this helps, -gjb-

[Anonymous Monk]

This is most likely the problem.

I have to say, this was pretty darn intuitive of you, and I really appreciate the help.

Since I'm trying to stop benig such a hack (ugly code, procedural, use strict, etc.), is this the prettyiest way to while over a string?

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

my $string="wheristhelove";
my @array=split(/\s*/, $string);
foreach (@array){
...

Again, thank you so much for your help!