What does $mylead = '^' and if
(/${mylead}$name_passed$/) mean?
--- Wagner-David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> But don't you need to distinguish between: n-4.t-1
> and n-4.t-11? And
> if you are passed only t-1 then that should be
> distinguised from t-11 or
> t-100?
>
> I looked at :
>
> $mylead = '';
> while(<FILE>) {
> chomp;
> $mylead = '^';
> if ( $named_passed =~ /^t/ ) {
> $mylead = '';
> }
> if (/${mylead}$name_passed$/) {
> .....
>
> By doing the above, you match against whole name
> if n-4.t-1 is passed or
> only the node if t-1 is passed. I could be missing
> something.
>
> Wags ;)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lynn Glessner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 10:18
> To: Sofia; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Matching strings
>
>
> I think that you just need to match the other way
> around to get the partial
> match.
> Instead of looking for the fileline within the
> name_passed, look for the
> name_passed within the fileline.
>
> Something like this should do the desired partial
> match, and be shorter and
> clearer (at least to me, another newbie).
>
> while(<FILE>) {
> chomp;
> if (/$name_passed/) {
> .....
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sofia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 9:59 AM
> Subject: Matching strings
>
>
> > I am having problems matching strings. I have the
> > following code that reads a file with computer
> names
> > and if a named passed to the script is in the file
> > print yes otherwise print no, for example. The
> > computer names are in the format n-4.t-1 meaning
> node
> > four on rack 1.
> >
> > while(<FILE>) {
> > $line = $_;
> > chomp($line);
> > $_ = $name_passed; # name is the argument
> passed to
> > this script
> > if (/$line/) {
> > print "yes\n";
> > exit 0;
> > }
> > }
> > print "no\n";
> >
> > Now, if the file contains computer n-4.t-1 and I
> want
> > to see if computer n-4.t-11 exists in the file
> (which
> > it doesn't) the script return yes because it
> matches
> > n-4.t-1. However, the file might contain the
> entry
> > "t-2" which means that all the nodes on rack 2
> need to
> > be disabled. So, if I passed the script the name
> of
> > n-4.t-2, the script should return "yes" because
> that
> > nodes is part of rack 2.
> >
> > Any ideas anyone???
> >
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