Basic HTML version of Foils prepared April 16,1996

Foil 4 Some Key Advances in Perl5 -- II

From Perl5 and Advanced Perl4 Features Computational Science for Information Age Course CPS616 Material -- April 16,1996. by Geoffrey C. Fox
Significant regular expression enhancements
  • parantheses implemented more cleanly separating backreference ($n) and grouping function
  • Minimal as well as default maximal greedy matching allowed
  • Support for comments in regular expression
Full support for pointers (references)
various useful new routines such as my qq my lc uc lcfirst ucfirst
A lot of new pragmas (use english, strict 'vars' 'refs' 'subs' )

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