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on Sep 18, 2007 at 08:10 UTC ( [id://639573]=perlquestion: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
ocs has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question: Hello monks, I got a small problem concerning references in perls regex flavor. And I want to match all double characters (a-z), i.e. ll and rr in the given string and contract them to one char. (Please do not take this seriously, its just an example.) So I went like this: $lala =~ s/([a-z])$1/$1/gIt does not work. So I played around: $lala =~ s/([a-z])\1/$1/gThis works. But what I kept in mind was this: Warning on \1 vs $1 So I don't know why in the first version the $1 in the matching part (not the substitute part) does not work but with \1 in the second version? I thought \1 is obsolete and just a relic of a sed styled referencing. This is nothing big, but ... did I miss something? Thanks in advance, ocs. tennis players have fuzzy balls.
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