Posted by mbstevens on 11/09/07 02:37

Jonathan N. Little wrote:

>>>> Where's the 's'?
>>> s/jumped/jumps/
>>
>> I carefully looked at the OP's text and could not see
>> "s/jumped/jumps/" anywhere.
>>
>
> Seriously? It's a regular expression substitution "replace 'jumped' with
> 'jumps'"
>
Well, strictly speaking, s///; is a _Perl_ regular expression substitution.
I think the popularity of other languages has left a gap in common knowledge of
it.

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