[ale] OT: Perl Question

[Zhongbin Yu " <z.yu at premcall.com>]

I hit this when I tried to find RPMs to update: + is a reserved character
for reg expression.
what I did is do a replacement for + first before the reg exp match
Then, replace it back to ++ or whatever at your leisure.


Jerry Yu
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On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Robert L. Harris wrote:

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#Ok,
#  I'm writing a perl script that looks at files in specific directories.
#At one point, I'm trying to grep file names out of an array.  I'm 
#using:
#
#$Skip=grep(/$File/, at FileList);
#
#Yes, I do want a scalar returned.  At any rate, there is a point
#where $File="c++decl" and then I get this error:
#
#//usr/bin/c++decl/: nested *?+ in regexp at ./wanderblock.pl line 170.
#
#Anyone know a way around this?  Basically, all I need to know is if $File
#is in @FileList, not it's position or anything else.
#
#Robert
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#FYI:
# perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'
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