Randy J. Ray

"Would I? Would I what, soil myself just from looking down the slide? *Yes. Yes, I would.*" - Randy J. Ray

"Later, when he does: if ($string =~ $b) { ... } that part is matching against $b, yes." - Randy J. Ray

"OK, a couple of things you've missed, here: $b = /(\d){2}\/(\d){2}\/(\d){4}/; That's not going to assign the regexp to $b, that's going to evaluate the regexp against $_, and assigned a boolean value to $b that indicates whether the pattern matched against $_. You probably wanted to use "qr" (a quote-operator that returns a regexp object): $b = qr{(\d){2}/(\d){2}/(\d){4}}; Note something else I did there: I used "{" and "}" to delimit the regexp instead of "/"... this lets you avoid escaping slashes all over the place (often referred to a "leaning toothpick syndrome"). Also note that the "{" and "}" correctly balance even though they are also used for the quantifiers ("{2}", etc.). OK, next is that your string *won't actually match this regexp*, because (1) it has only 1 digit in the first group, and (2) it has three digits in the middle group. So even after you correctly assign $b, you *won't* see the message, "hello world". That said, I suspect that you just mis-typed the assignment..." - Randy J. Ray

"I also live in Sunnyvale, but I'm originally from Oklahoma. When someone says "redneck", I have a pretty specific archetype in mind..." - Randy J. Ray

"submitted by reddit to blog." - Randy J. Ray