Hello again folks. It now works- I had to put the characters inside " " during the query. i have used
if ($msg =~ /roam\s*act/i) therefore i will run c:\perl\bin->perl activate.pl "roam(space) act" Thanks all for your help especially Beau E. Cox Elie De Brauwer ----- Original Message ----- From: "John W. Krahn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Perl Beginners" <beginners@perl.org> Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 9:29 AM Subject: Re: white space between roam and act > Beau E. Cox wrote: > > > > Whitespace is \s ( by default ( |\t|\n) ) > > Actually the \s character class is the same as [ \t\n\r\f]. > > > John > -- > use Perl; > program > fulfillment > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response> > > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
