Alan -
Your problem are the "$" in $path and $url. You need to escape them
somehow or just remove them out of your test script if you don't need
them. Also
if ($url !~ /$path/){
$url = $path.$url;
}
worked fine for me, no need for the m,^, or !.
Mark
Alan Hulley wrote:
>
> Hell
Hello. I'm new to Perl and CGI and seem to have dropped in the deep end with this
particular problem!
The basic requirement is: if a string doesn't begin with a sequence of characters
then prepend that sequence to the string. Seems simple enough, but this is
complicated (it would seem from
