Jason Balicki wrote:
> This should be a quickie, I hope:
>
> I'm parsing an array that contains things like Zap/1 Zap/2 Zap/3 ... etc.
>
> I'm only concerned with Zap/32 - Zap/47.
>
> Will this work:
>
> if (($zapdef eq "Zap/*") and ($zapdef eq
> "*[32|33|34|35|36|37|38|39|40|41|42|43|44|45|46|47]*")) {
> dostuff();
> }
No, it will not work correctly. First of all you are not using regular
expressions you are using the 'eq' operator which compares strings for
equality. To do what you want using a regular expression:
if ( $zapdef =~ m!^Zap/(?:3[2-9]|4[0-7])$! ) {
John
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