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Motherfuckin' Perl

Name: Anonymous 2012-07-13 15:44



$thingy = "asdf1.jpg";

$num = $thingy =~ s/.*/asdf/;

print $num;

Why the fuck is this outputting a "1" instead of "asdf"?

Name: Anonymous 2012-07-13 16:57

Because in scalar context =~ returns the number of matches. In list context it returns matches themselves. So:
($num) = $thingy =~ s/.*/asdf/;

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