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Re: how to select which words have Y and W

by Laurent_R (Canon)
on Dec 26, 2013 at 12:19 UTC ( [id://1068429]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to how to select which words have Y and W

For your initial question, if you want words having both y and w, a character class or alternation is not sufficient. Try two regexes: 
$ perl -e 'print join " ", grep { /y/ and /w/}  ('red', 'cyan', 'yello
+w', 'blue' )'
yellow

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