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Yes, you are absolutely right. Thanks for the correction.

In fact, I also thought that reverse worked on strings and so I tried print reverse 'hello' which returns hello. From that I (incorrectly) concluded that it doesn't work ... well, got bitten by list context again, print scalar reverse 'hello' does the job OK :)

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Re^4: palindrome using regular expressions
by strat (Canon) on Oct 11, 2006 at 07:58 UTC

    exactly.

    reverse is aware of its context; if you use it in string context ($reverse = reverse ...), it reverses the string; but if you use it in list context (print reverse ... or @array = reverse ..), it reverses the list (and does nothing if the list only has one element

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