Hi, all -- So I have this mp3 database script idea and I'm starting to move into it (it feels good to think perlishly again, and I'm going to want to be able to ignore case or not and search on substrings or not in my code. That's always been a problem for me: how can I modify my behavior based on conditions?
Clearly I could do something like (but probably not exactly like; I have
no idea whether or not this would parse but instead just want to set the
example)
if ( $WholeMatchOnly )
{
if ( $IgnoreCase )
{ /^\($pattern\)$/i }
else
{ /^\($pattern\)$/ }
}
else
{
if ( $IgnoreCase )
{ /\($pattern\)/i }
else
{ /\($pattern\)/ }
}
but that, even sucked up like it is, is long, drawn-out, and a stinker to
maintain. Is there a way to do something like
if ( $WholeMatchOnly )
{ $ABeg = '^' ; $AEnd = '\$' }
if ( $IgnoreCase )
{ $MOpts =. 'i' }
/$ABeg$pattern$AEnd/$MOpts
so that the match is configured dynamically based on the conditions
going into it?
TIA & HAND
:-D
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