On Fri, 15 Feb 2002, terri harrison wrote:
> If my input is in the form:
>
> Name: Happy, Species: Cat, Gender: Male
> Name: Peanut, Species: Hamster, Gender: Female
>
> how come
> foreach (keys %names) {
> if ($names{$_} =~ /\s*Gender:\s*$gen\s*/i) {
> AND
> if ($names{$_} =~ /\s*Species:\s*$sp\s*/i) {
>
> WORK
>
> why doesn't
> if ($names{$_} =~ /\s*Name:\s*$pn\s*/i) {
In what context? What are you expecting them to do? What are you doing
with the data? Where are the variables $gen, $sp and $pn coming from?
Going by the two lines of data at the top, my first inclination would be
to break them up into key & value pairs and get them into a hash (using
splits, one to split onf commas, then on the :), then not even worry about
those regular expressions you are attempting.
-- Brett
http://www.chapelperilous.net/
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