Dan wrote: > > Hey, I have a slight dilemma which i'm struggling to overcome. Wondering if > anyone has any ideas on this.. > > I have a variable, for example's sake, say $variable. $variable has a load > of entries. > > $variable = "danneh blah dan etc danster"; > > What i want to do, without having to set the entire string to an array, loop > through it, compare etc, is to remove the single entry "dan", and leave the > other 2 entries with "dan" contained in them in tact. I used to use > > $remove = "dan"; > $variable =~ s/\Q$remove//g;
You need to use the \b word boundary zero-width assertion. $variable =~ s/\b\Q$remove\E\b//g; John -- use Perl; program fulfillment -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
