Thanks
I know that there are metachars in the result. non printing chars that
I need to leave there until a later part of the processing.
I don't get why this would affect the result though.
Cheers
Angie
> On 4/19/05, angie ahl wrote:
> > 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
> >
>
> Metachars in the results perhaps? Have you tried dumping @tables using
> Data::Dumper and looking at the results?
> Try using quotemeta (http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/quotemeta.html):
> my $table = quotemeta;
>
> HTH,
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