Thank you both. I am trying to find out why "!~" operator fails. It is due to the whitespaces. but I am using "six" to ignore spaces. Sorry guys. Below is the actual code. I made the changes that A.R. Ferreira suggested and it fails.
use strict; use warnings; my $rdns="cn=Exchange Sites,cn=Proxy Views,cn=JoinEngine Configuration,ou=Conf,o u=InJoin,ou=applications,dc=marriott,dc=com"; my $result="cn=Exchange Sites"; if ($result !~ /\Q$rdns\E/six) { print "\nresult: '$result'"; print "\nrdn: '$rdns'\n"; } else { print "String is there\n"; } OUTPUT is: $ ./test.pl result: 'cn=Exchange Sites' rdn: 'cn=Exchange Sites,cn=Proxy Views,cn=JoinEngine Configuration,ou=Conf,ou=InJoin,ou=applications,dc=marriott,dc=com' Tom your code works fine. But I was tring to understand why "!~" fails above. use strict; use warnings; my $rdns="cn=Exchange Sites,cn=Proxy Views,cn=JoinEngine Configuration,ou=Conf,o u=InJoin,ou=applications,dc=marriott,dc=com"; my $result="cn=Exchange Sites"; if ($result !~ /\Q$rdns\E/six) { print "\nresult: '$result'"; print "\nrdn: '$rdns'\n"; } else { print "String is there\n"; } OUTPUT is: String is there -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: beginners@perl.org Sent: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 12:29 PM Subject: Re: BInding operator fails On 2/26/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi. I have a problem with the below code. I have two strings, $rdns and > $result1. > I want to make sure $result 1 is NOT part of $rdns. But the below > fails...thus > instead of printing the else part of the if-else-loop. It print the main > part. Does > anyone know what coudl cause this. > if ($result !~ /$rdns/ix) { That's checking whether $rdns, as a pattern, does not match the string in $result. (Was that supposed to be $result1?) But I think you're asking for this, maybe: if (index($rdns, $result) == -1) { print "\$result isn't part of \$rdns.\n"; } The index function is covered in perlfunc. Hope this helps! --Tom Phoenix Stonehenge Perl Training -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ ________________________________________________________________________ Check out the new AOL. Most comprehensive set of free safety and security tools, free access to millions of high-quality videos from across the web, free AOL Mail and more.