Re: What the heck does this mean?

[vonman]

I think what is happening is that the original code must not be displaying characters correctly on my machine. So what should I replace m and # with?

[japhy]

What are you talking about? m// is the pattern match operator, and you can use characters other than / for the delimiter. Thus, the code can be:

/^coclli=(.*)/
# or
m!^coclli=(.*)!
# or
m<^coclli=(.*)>

Perl can be as eccentric as the programmers who use it.

japhy -- Perl and Regex Hacker

[astanley]

perl allows you to specify any character as the regexp seperator. / is just a suggestion and I guess is most widely used? Either way the perldocs say you can use m## just as easy as m// if, for instance you wanted to match a string that had a lot of /'s in it and didn't want to \/ them all - m#///# would work and is a little easier to read than m/\/\/\//.
Adam