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Hi All,

I am new to perl
and am wondering why the following is not running :

$_ = "The brown fox jumps over the lazy dog";
/the (\S+)(?{ $color = $^N }) (\S+)(?{ $animal = $^N })/i;
print "color = $color, animal = $animal\n";

its giving no output and if I use it in my programs it gives
Sequence (?{...) not recognized at.....

I took it from this link :

http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.8.0/pod/perlre.html

Thanx in advance,
Mark

debraj wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I am new to perl
> and am wondering why the following is not running :
>
> $_ = "The brown fox jumps over the lazy dog";
> /the (\S+)(?{ $color = $^N }) (\S+)(?{ $animal = $^N })/i;
> print "color = $color, animal = $animal\n";
>
> its giving no output and if I use it in my programs it gives
> Sequence (?{...) not recognized at.....
>
> I took it from this link :
>
> http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.8.0/pod/perlre.html
>
> Thanx in advance,
> Mark
>
Just a few lines above the spot where you copied your code from there is this warning:



"WARNING: This extended regular expression feature is considered highly experimental,

and may be changed or deleted without notice."


Apparently your verison of Perl doesn't support this feature.

On Sun, 06 Jul 2003 04:45:04 +0000, debraj wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I am new to perl
> and am wondering why the following is not running :
>
> $_ = "The brown fox jumps over the lazy dog";
> /the (\S+)(?{ $color = $^N }) (\S+)(?{ $animal = $^N })/i;
> print "color = $color, animal = $animal\n";
>

Hi,
this works perfectly here, with perl 5.8.0. Obviously, if you perl
version is older than that it could not work (IIRC code blocks in regex
weren't there even in 5.6.1).

--
Leo "TheHobbit"
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darknes bind them
In the land of Mordor where the Shadow lie.

debraj <> wrote:

> I am new to perl


You should use the docs that _came with_ your version of perl,
else what you see may not work with the version that you
actually have available to you.


> /the (\S+)(?{ $color = $^N }) (\S+)(?{ $animal = $^N })/i;


> Sequence (?{...) not recognized at.....
>
> I took it from this link :
>
> http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.8.0/pod/perlre.html
^^^^^
^^^^^

Do you _have_ perl version 5.8.0?

If you use the docs that came with your perl, then you will see
only those features that you can use with your perl.


--
Tad McClellan SGML consulting
Perl programming
Fort Worth, Texas