From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2002-11-10T22:24:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Lighting Rod

From: "Alan Chen" <alan@digikata.com>


> That and the alternatives to some are a little more verbose. I'm thinking of
> the Regex match variables $1, $2, etc...
> 
> Now I'm curious, how many people use this:
> 
> if( str =~ /pattern/)
>   # .. do stuff with $1, $2, et al..
> 
> versus this:
> 
> if( m = /pattern/.match(str) )
>   # do stuff with match obj. m
> 
> Alan Chen


I'm perfectly happy with
  str =~ /pattern/

But I do use OO regexen whereever I can, to answer your broader question :)

Gavin