Re: Any idea what this does

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If the first character of @{$memoryfile}[0] or (||) @{$memoryfile}[1] is not a printable character then log a error message and returns -1 value.

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Re^2: Any idea what this does by ikegami (Patriarch) on May 29, 2007 at 02:58 UTC
No. If any character. And what's with "(\|\|)"?	[reply]
Re^3: Any idea what this does by ysth (Canon) on May 29, 2007 at 03:17 UTC
He's explaining that "\|\|" means "or".	[reply]
Re^2: Any idea what this does by chromatic (Archbishop) on May 29, 2007 at 05:56 UTC
Close... The caret character (`^`) is a negation operator inside a character class here. Outside the character class, it would indeed be an anchor to the start of the string.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Any idea what this does by sanPerl (Friar) on May 29, 2007 at 04:33 UTC
Also I feel LogMess must be some subroutine somewhere in the code, which accepts two arguments.	[reply]

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