Joel wrote: > Thanks. > > What does "ne" mean? It's not listed in functions in the documentation. > > Joel
It's actually an operator, for inequality of strings. It's the complement of eq, the string equality operator eq. These measure strings for character-by-character equality. This is as distinct from the numerical equality == and inequality != operators. Perl also provides regular expression pattern syntax, in order to find patterns that are similar, but not identical. Numerous books have been written on the subject, so I won't try to thumbnail it here. Try: perldoc perlre at the command line for more info on the subject. Joseph -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
