[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all, Hello,
> Can some please advise how to get this to work? > > print "matches" if $string =~ m/$pattern/; > > Am trying to search for a pattern but the pattern has to be a variable. Thanks > in advance. How did this "not work"? What is it not doing that you want it to do? What warning/error messages did it generate? You probably have regex meta-characters in $pattern that need to be escaped. 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>
