[NTLUG:Discuss] regular expression question

[David Stanaway]

In perl?

[<]


$ perl -e '$s = qq{a<b}; if ( $s =~ /\w[<]\w/ ) { print qq{Matched $&\n}; }'
Matched a<b


Leroy Tennison wrote:
> I need to match a less-than sign (<).  unfortunately, it appears that \< 
> has special meaning (Match the empty string at the beginning of word.) 
> What do I do?  \\<  ???
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