SV: [FWP] What is regex

[patrik.grip-jansson@vv.se]

On Thu, 19 Jun 1999, Bill Jones wrote:

> So, instead of saying, say in C:
> if ((substr(data,0,4)) == "JAPH") {
>   /* Do stuff... */
> }
> In perl (or any RE aware language) one could say:
>
> do stuff() if /'JAPH'/;

Actually in perl one would say something along the lines of;

stuff() if $data=~m/^JAPH/;
 

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