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I'm curious. What are you trying to do with that pattern matching? I've seen .. usage just in arrays, or iteration. Could you enlight me?

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Re^2: ranged conditional with variable
by Hofmator (Curate) on Aug 22, 2006 at 12:11 UTC
    What you know is probably .. in list context. The OP is using .. in scalar context (the so called flip-flop operator), see perldoc perlop -> Range Operators

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      Thanks for your reply! We are always learning Perl magics :-)

      Igor 'izut' Sutton
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