Considering that one must hold down the shift key for the
tilde character, coupled with the fact that the plus sign
character shares the same key as the equal sign character
... yes ;)
But, have you played with the results yet?
[prompt]$ perl -le 'print /RED/'
[prompt]$ perl -le 'print ~/RED/'
4294967295
[prompt]$ perl -le 'print hex("F"x8)'
4294967295
[prompt]$ perl -le '$_ = "REDIRECT"; print /RED/'
1
[prompt]$ perl -le '$_ = "REDIRECT"; print ~/RED/'
4294967294
[prompt]$ perl -le '$_ = "REDIRECT"; print 5+~/RED/'
4294967299
Gotta love Perl's flexibility! :D
jeffa
L-LL-L--L-LL-L--L-LL-L--
-R--R-RR-R--R-RR-R--R-RR
B--B--B--B--B--B--B--B--
H---H---H---H---H---H---
(the triplet paradiddle with high-hat)
