perl question

[Greg Daly]

thanks parker. worked great!
-greg



On Sun, 27 Feb 2000, Parker Thompson wrote:

> 
> Try this:
> 
> $input =~ /\blin\b/;
> 
> This will match lin but not linux or gamblin. The \b char requires that
> there be a word boundary for the reg exp to be true.
> 
> Check out the section on regular expressions in Programming Perl, it's
> straight-up dope-fly.
> 
> Parker.
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> "It took the computing power of three C-64s to fly to the Moon.
> It takes a 486 to run Windows 95. Something is wrong here."
> 
> On Sun, 27 Feb 2000, Greg Daly wrote:
> 
> :hey all,
> :not explicitly linux, but close. i'm trying to match occurences of a
> :string in perl. problem is, i only want occurences of that string
> :specifically to ring a true. example, say i have this list:
> :
> :linux
> :linus
> :
> :$input=~/lin/  will give me a TRUE, even though I only want it to ring
> :true IFF there exists an entry named 'lin'. 
> :
> :see what i mean? any suggestions? is there a switch i don't know about?
> :thanks,
> :-greg
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