Orpheus — Thu, 07 Sep 2000 21:27:12 +0000

|| is for things like if, and elsif
| in regex means or

hope that cleared it up for you

Mark Hensler — Thu, 07 Sep 2000 21:09:45 +0000

I thought that || was 'or'...
Or does that not aply for regex?

Ken Elliott — Thu, 07 Sep 2000 12:37:32 +0000

It means "or". I found out that this code:

@named = split(/|/, $name);

was actually looking for NOTHING or NOTHING..hehe.

So I escaped the "or" and it worked fine.

Mark Hensler — Thu, 07 Sep 2000 05:47:27 +0000

what does | mean by itself?

I thought you only needed to escape it in a string when you use it at as the delimiter... Cómo este:
$This =~ m|somehing \| something more|g;

Orpheus — Wed, 06 Sep 2000 20:55:11 +0000

@named = split(/\|/, $name);