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- From: mcook@fendahl.dev.cdx.mot.com (Michael Cook)
- Subject: Re: Partial RegExp's
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- thayer@cs.columbia.edu (Charles Thayer) writes:
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- >One thing that might be a simple/useful change to perl would be to let one
- >assign a regex to $/ for doing on-the-fly parsing. (to remain compatible
- >with old scripts, this magic wouldn't turn on unless you did a 'study $/')
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- That would be a good place to use a "version" directive:
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- version 5.1; # enable RE's in $/
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- Michael.
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