Thanks Tim ans Shishir - Works!
Aloha => Beau;
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'Beau E. Cox'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 5:30 AM
Subject: RE: Regex problem
>
> Try this:
>
> my $string = 'I love c++';
> my $compare = 'some compare string';
> if ($compare =~ /\Q$string/) { #disables metacharacters until \E
> print "$compare contains $string\n";
> } else {
> print "$compare does not contain $string\n";
> }
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Beau E. Cox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 8:23 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Regex problem
>
>
> Hi All -
>
> This script:
>
> use strict;
> use warnings;
>
> my $string = 'I love c++';
> my $compare = 'some compare string';
> if ($compare =~ /$string/) {
> print "$compare contains $string\n";
> } else {
> print "$compare does not contain $string\n";
> }
>
> gives this error:
>
> Nested quantifiers in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/I love c++ <-- HERE /
> at t.pl line 6.
>
> It's the '+'s. I've tried escaping them '\+' but then
> the regex matches on '\+'. I don't understand what is
> happening.
>
> This is occuring in a script that's manipulating
> files; file names with '+'s fail on this error. Is there any
> way I can fix this before I fall back to substrings and
> 'eq'/'ne' compares (ugh).
>
> Aloha => Beau;
>
>
>
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