[ale] Perl monks ?

[James P. Kinney III]

I concede. I explicitly declare all variables so I never use the $_ by
it self. 

On Wed, 2002-05-01 at 15:13, Fletch wrote:
> >>>>> "James" == James P Kinney, <James> writes:
> 
>     James> On Wed, 2002-05-01 at 14:11, Mazukna, Thomas wrote:
>     >> 1. Is the following snippet a valid piece of Perl code?
>     >> s/[Tt]he\s/a/gis;
> 
>     James> Only if it has a $variable ~= in front (unless in
>     James> commandline mode).  Then it will substitute "a" for "The "
>     James> or "the "
> 
>         No, it's perfectly valid.  If you don't bind a specific
> varible $_ will be used (as it is many places in perl when no explicit
> arugment is given).  See perldoc perlop.
> 
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