Inline Modifiers : modifier « Regular Expression « Perl






  1. Perl
  2. Regular Expression
  3. modifier

Inline Modifiers

    

#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
my $string = "There's more than One Way to do it!";
print "Enter a test expression: ";
my $pat = <STDIN>;
chomp($pat);
if ($string =~ /$pat/) {
    print "'$pat' matches the sample string.\n";
} else {
    print "No match found for '$pat'";
}








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