Nothing that I can see. Although, /bone twob/ is probably slightly
better. What's the problem?

James

ok, I bite, what is the problem?

given
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

while ( <DATA> ) {
my $text = $_;
if ($text =~ /one two/)
{
print "line is ok:nt$text";
} else {
print "WRONG!nt$text";
}
}

__DATA__
If 'one two' is found, it is okay.
If 'one' is found, it is incorrect.
If 'two' is found, it is also incorrect.

we get
line is ok:
If 'one two' is found, it is okay.
WRONG!
If 'one' is found, it is incorrect.
WRONG!
If 'two' is found, it is also incorrect.

What Problem?


ciao
drieux

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Sample text courtesy of Project Gutenberg:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

while( my $line = <DATA> ){
while( $line =~ m/W((gw*?)|(w*?g))W/ig ){
print "Line $.: $1n";
}
}

__DATA__

Puck's Song


See you the dimpled track that runs,
All hollow through the wheat?
O that was where they hauled the guns
That smote King Philip's fleet!

See you our little mill that clacks,
So busy by the brook?
She has ground her corn and paid her tax
Ever since Domesday Book.

See you our stilly woods of oak,
And the dread ditch beside?
O that was where the Saxons broke,
On the day that Harold died!

See you the windy levels spread
About the gates of Rye?
O that was where the Northmen fled,
When Alfred's ships came by!

See you our pastures wide and lone,
Where the red oxen browse?
O there was a City thronged and known,
Ere London boasted a house!

And see you, after rain, the trace
Of mound and ditch and wall?
O that was a Legion's camping-place,
When Caesar sailed from Gaul!

And see you marks that show and fade,
Like shadows on the Downs?
O they are the lines the Flint Men made,
To guard their wondrous towns!

Trackway and Camp and City lost,
Salt Marsh where now is corn;
Old Wars, old Peace, old Arts that cease,
And so was England born!

She is not any common Earth,
Water or Wood or Air,
But Merlin's Isle of Gramarye,
Where you and I will fare.

this will print OR, he wants AND, so, change this regexp to:
m/W((g)w*2)W/ig

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