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[inenigma]

Hey,

I'm a bit confused with this (I'm a dinosaur..old dog, new tricks). Am I correct in thinking that, in the strict absence of being stated otherwise, any boolean comparisions are performed against $_ ?? In the example below "$_" is used as the basis of comparision for "if (/$pattern/)", ???

$_ = q("I wonder what the Entish is for 'yes' and 'no'," he thought.);

print "Enter some text to find: "; my $pattern = <STDIN>; chomp($pattern);

if (/$pattern/) {
print "The text matches the pattern '$pattern'.\n";
} else {
print "'$pattern' was not found.\n";
}

[hodge-podge]

Yes, I'm pretty sure $_ is used to compare by default. But why not use $_ =~ m/ etc just to be safe?

[inenigma]

Cheers. It's just that the example is from a text that I'm reading and I wanted to confirm my understanding of what it was comparing against to decide if it was TRUE or FALSE..