On 2018-11-21 3:08 a.m., Amanda Paziuk wrote:
I'm hoping someone can assist as I'm having difficulty with parsing a
section of the following configuration:
This is the code I have:
push @list, $datum; # should only contain '1', and '3'
>
> ...
>
foreach my $i (@list){ # loops through dynamically-learned file IDs
open (IN, $file);
while (<IN>) {
chomp;
if (/^ file-id $i/) {
If $i contains 1 then this will match "file-id 10" or "file-id 1234" or
any number whose first digit is 1.
You need to either use anchors:
if ( /^ file-id \b$i\b/ ) {
Or capture the number and do numerical comparison:
if ( /^ file-id (\d+)/ && $1 == $i ) {
John
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