…f you know just a little about them, a quick-start introduction is available in perlrequick . Except for "The Basics" section, this page assumes you are familiar with regular expression basics, like what is a "pattern", what does it look like, and how it is basically used. For a …

… support is both broad and deep, and is the subject of lengthy documentation in perlrequick perlretut , and elsewhere. However, in short: Simple matching if (/foo/) { ... } # true if $_ contains "foo" if ($x =~ /foo/) { ... } # true if $x contains "foo" The // matching operator i…

…f you know just a little about them, a quick-start introduction is available in perlrequick Except for "The Basics" section, this page assumes you are familiar with regular expression basics, like what is a "pattern", what does it look like, and how it is basically used. For a re…