Re: Regular expression for years after a given one

* Tobias Wolter <[email protected]> [2004-06-01 17:33]:
> On 2004-06-01T10:52:55+0100 (Tuesday), Jose Alves de Castro wrote:
> > "How can I say that I want every single year after the one I
> > have? It's impossible..."
> 
> The > operator works quite well for a four-digit year.

Yeah, but that requires backing out of the pattern match into
Perl context, as saving the required information isn't always
easy either.

Of course you could use such a numerical comparison in a Perl
code subexpression as several people here have done, but that is
also a switch of context.

There may also be cases where the interface to some other part of
code will only allow you to pass in a pattern, not a coderef or
something else, and where re 'eval' is not enabled.

There are definitely circumstances where using a regex to do
numerical comparison is the best option.

And anyway, did you notice what this list is called?

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