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If I understand you correctly, you want to say
Here's why it shouldn't work. Since s/// returns a number of times a match is found, anyway you associate =~, you end up with something like at some point. This is not legal. If you want to chain =~, then we must expect s/// to return a string. Specifically, we must get one that does regular expressions such as s/this/that/ or m[^/usr/local/bin], but then this prohibits us from saying because the condition will evaluate to false. I'd rather have if ( $s =~ /match/ ) { .. } rather than the chain-ability of s///. Update: Above discussion assumes that =~ is right associative, but in fact it is left associative. This means that as long as =~ returns an integer, we have a trouble (say 1=~ s/this/that/). I like roju's idea of returning a string, but I don't know how easy/hard it is to implement it. In reply to Re: Chaining string ops
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