Re: Re: Regex - repeating a pattern within two anchors?

>&gt;>>&gt; "hooyar66" == hooyar66 < pcbcad%40hotpop.com">pcbcadhotpop.com> writes:

This is dangerous:

hooyar66> $line =~ /"(.+)"/;

because if it *doesn't* match, then:

hooyar66&gt; my $str = $1;

the $1 there is the *previous* $1. Bad. Very bad idea.

NEVER use $1 except in a context where you have validated that the
match has actually succeeded.

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