On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 12:51:55PM -0400, Ron Woodall wrote:
> Hi All:
>
> A bit of a conundrum here.
>
> while (attlist[$x] =~ m|<!-- start description| || m|<!-- start
> explanation|) {x++}
>
> It finds "description" but not "explanation." What am I doing wrong?
> It works sometimes but not other times.
This code doesn't work at all, it's full of syntax errors. I'm assuming you
typed this in manually, rather than copied and pasted.
while ($attlist[$x] =~ /.../ || $attlist[$x] =~ /.../) {
$x++
}
You have to supply the string the regex is to match against, otherwise it
matches against $_.
Michael
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