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The following code: Exits immediately and produces the message below when search pattern "[COLOR="Green"]\b\w+{3}\b[/COLOR]" is entered: [code=perl] #!/usr/bin/perl -w #matchtest1.pl use strict; my($pattern); my($true); $_ = '1: A silly sentence (495,a) *BUT* one which will be useful. (3)'; do { print "Enter a regular expression: "; chomp($pattern = <STDIN>); if …

I am reading the book "Beginning Perl" by James Lee and have been pretty happy with the content so far. That said I am stuck on chpt 7 which deals with regular expressions - I can't get the backreferences to work even when I copy the source verbatim. source: [COLOR="Green"] …

Brand Newbie to perl. Playing around trying to get a feel for how arrays work and encountered error in title. [COLOR="Green"]#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; my(@array) = (10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60); my($marker); my($EOA) = @array; for ($marker = 0; $marker <= $EOA ; $marker++){ print "@array[$marker]\n"; #line where error …