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Matching Only Once in Perl
There is a simpler version of the match operator in Perl - the ?PATTERN? operator. This is basically identical to the m// operator except that it only matches once within the string you are searching between each call to reset.
For example, you can use this to get the first and last elements within a list −
Example
#!/usr/bin/perl
@list = qw/food foosball subeo footnote terfoot canic footbrdige/;
foreach (@list) {
$first = $1 if /(foo.*?)/;
$last = $1 if /(foo.*)/;
}
print "First: $first, Last: $last\n";When the above program is executed, it produces the following result −
First: foo, Last: footbrdige
Updated on: 29-Nov-2019
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