> -----Original Message----- > From: Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 8:20 PM > To: Ryan Frantz > Cc: beginners perl > Subject: Re: Block Confusion > > On Sep 27, Ryan Frantz said: > > > # list the processes to hunt for > > my @findProcesses = ( > > "putty", > > "firefox", > > ); > > > > foreach my $process (in > > $serverObj->InstancesOf("Win32_PerfFormattedData_PerfProc_Process")) { > > foreach my $matchProcess ( @findProcesses ) { > > if ( $process->{Name} =~ /$matchProcess/oi ) { > > You're using the /o modifier here, and that's causing your problem. I'm > guessing you don't actually know what the /o modifier does. It tells Perl > the regex won't change after it's been compiled the first time. Remove > the /o modifier and I believe your code will run fine.
I misunderstood the documentation I read about the /o modifier; I thought it was necessary for a variable whose value was a regex and then assumed (yes, due to my ignorance) that the next iteration through the list would do the same. I have modified my code and it works as intended. Thanks for the heads up. > > -- > Jeff "japhy" Pinyan % How can we ever be the sold short or > RPI Acacia Brother #734 % the cheated, we who for every service > http://www.perlmonks.org/ % have long ago been overpaid? > http://princeton.pm.org/ % -- Meister Eckhart -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
