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Regex Character Class bug?
Thanks for the replies. The problem was that Regex stops at the first hit in the previous example. So it saw a "C" as first character, and than checked it against "[^A]" and immediately stopped searching further. I fixed it by doing this: if('CCTAGG' =~ /^[^A]*$/) { print "match"; } -
Regex Character Class bug?
I can't figure out why the following does not work. if('CCTAGG' =~ /[^A]/) { print "match"; } I would expect that it would not match because the string has a A in it. But it DOES match. Can someone explain this to me? When I remove the carrot (^), than it also matches. Which I expect...
