One way of doing this:
chop ($username);
if ($username eq "") {
.......................
}
This will at least ensure that a carriage return
is not included in the scalar
PJD
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From: "Matthew Harrison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 5:32 PM
Subject: first glimpse of regex
> i need to say something like
> if $username = "" then ...
>
> where "" is literally nothing. i want to match it ONLY if the variable is
> totally empty.
>
> this is my first experience with regex so what should this be?
>
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