On Sun, Jun 13, 1999 at 04:21:03AM -0400, Ilya Zakharevich wrote:
Please tell me whether
sub foo { return $1 if s/\btypedef\s+int\s+(\w+)// }
is operating on bytes or characters. Now substitute the words there
by other words and repeat it again.
I would say characters, but this is not a good example. I would say
that substr or split are better examples where the operator is
used for both character and byte operations.
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