On Nov 26, Sidharth Malhotra said: >It will only match anything beginning with "daniel": "daniel", >"daniella", "danielson", "daniel smith" .... >If you specifically want to match only "daniel" try: >/^$user$/
But there's no reason to use a regex for that. Please read my recent document on this: http://japhy.perlmonk.org/docs/regex-vs-eq -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ ** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by Manning, in 2002 ** -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]