perl question

[Greg Daly]

sorry to gum up the list more, but i love that tutorial too. :)

> 
> Also - for a quick perl tutorial that I like go to:
> http://agora.leeds.ac.uk/Perl/start.html
> 
> Hope that helps,
> 
> --Russell
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Greg Daly" <gdaly at u.washington.edu>
> To: "UW Linux Group" <linux at u.washington.edu>
> Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2000 7:08 PM
> Subject: perl question
> 
> 
> > 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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