From: Robert <bob.news@...>
Date: 2004-07-10T19:37:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Regexp exercise

Olivier D. wrote:


> I think that the best way to do it would be to use a simple match
> operator like:
> value = $1 if string =~ /b: (\d+)/
> 
> But on a different thread (http://tinyurl.com/38b27) someone explained
> that using global variables was a bad habit not to take.

I'm not 100% but as far as I remember $1 is thread local, i.e. no two 
threads can interfere with each other if they match regular expressions 
at the same time.  In that case it would be save to use $1.  Can anybod 
comment on that?

Kind regards

	robert