RE: Error : Nested quantifiers before HERE mark in regex

No, $log_entry[0] holds a string, and we are getting the error as ** is a
part of that string.

Bedanta

-----Original Message-----
From: Xavier Noria [mailto:fxn@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 3:08 PM
To: beginners perl
Subject: Re: Error : Nested quantifiers before HERE mark in regex

On Nov 29, 2005, at 10:22, Bedanta Bordoloi, Gurgaon wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I'm using the following regex in my code with processes a log file
>
> $str =~ s/(^$log_entry[0]\s)//i
>
> But I'm getting the following error on running the script:
>
> Nested quantifiers before HERE mark in regex m/(^img13.** << HERE **
> \s)/

Is $log_entry[0] supposed to be a regexp?

-- fxn


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