Hi Ben "Ben Siders" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > I believe that what he's after is a RE that will match the name of a > variable proceded by a dollar sign. > > I.E., given this: > > $foo = "bar"; > > if ( $var =~ /<some RE here>/ ) { print "true" } > > He wants the expression to evaluate true if $var contains the string > $foo; that is, the character '$' followed by 'f' 'o' 'o', not the > contents of the Perl variable '$foo'. And it should evaluate to false > even if $var contains the string "bar". The question is what the RE > should be.
That's what I thought. But that's what m/\$foo/ does, which is what he wrote. /R -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
