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.
The =~ isn't transitive across multiple m// operations.
That is, you're doing a match against $attlist[$x] with the first m//,
but doing a match against $_ (the default variable used for matching)
on the second m//.
The answer is to be more explicit in what you are trying to do:
while ($attlist[$x] =~ m/../ || $attlist[$x] =~ m/.../) {
}
Also, using |...| as a match delimiter along side the boolean || operator
makes your test a little difficult to read. Please consider using a
different match delimiter (//, {}, (), etc.).
Z.
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