in reply to Perl Idioms Explained - @ary = $str =~ m/(stuff)/g
One should perhaps add, that the real reason why this magic works is because "=~" binds more thightly than "=", so the regex gets done first and then its results are evaluated in list-context (which is provided by using an array as an L-value).
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Re: Re: Perl Idioms Explained - @ary = $str =~ m/(stuff)/g
by tachyon (Chancellor) on Sep 15, 2003 at 14:02 UTC |
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