Re: range operator for a condition in 2 steps

On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 21:36:46 -0500, James E. Tilley wrote:

>Does
>
>  if (/^BEGIN$/ .. (/^\s*$/ .. /^END$/) =~ /E/)
>
>do what you want?

s/BEGIN/START/ to plug it in the skeleton.

And yes, that's perfect. Quite elegant too. Very much so.


Here's my own solution:

        my $pre;
        while(<DATA>) {
            if(my $count = (($pre = /^START$/) .. 
                (/^$/ && undef $pre, !$pre && /^END$/))) {
                print "$count: $_";
            }
        }

What I don't particularly like about it, is how it needs an extra outer
scope variable, $pre, to hold a flag to store the intermediate
condition.

BTW with the additional variable $count capturing the result of the
expression,  it's easier to keep track of what happens.

-- 
        Bart.