Re: Whats wrong with the `=~ s///' line edit

Harry Putnam wrote:
> The regex (\"uri\".*?)  Doesn't match at all so I would expect the $2
> to return ''.   But instead it appears to return the whole line.

No, the regex doesn't match anything so there is no substitution.  $line 
is unmodified.


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