regex lying to me

[angie ahl]

The following regex is failing strangely:

        my @tables = $content =~ m#\[table\](.*?)\[/table\]#g;
        foreach (@tables) {
                my $table = $_;
                if ($content =~ m#$table#) {print "yes old table is there!\n";}
        }

@tables contains 2 items (correctly) but seaching for each item in
$content does not match.

How can it find 2 matches and then claim that each of them aren't there?

Perl 5.8.6 Mac OS X 10.3.8

Thanks

bemused Angie

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