Re: SV: [FWP] What is regex

[patrik.grip-jansson@vv.se]

alany@2021.com wrote;
>>Actually in perl one would say something along the lines of;
>>
>>stuff() if $data=~m/^JAPH/;
>
>Not neccessarily:
>
>while (<$FH>) {
>  do stuff() if /JAPH/;
>
>  # more stuff
>}

Of course! But I was actually complaining about the '-characters and more
important the original mail had something along the lines of;

In C;
if(strncmp(string,"foo",3) stuff();

Which only compares the first three characters, hence the need for a ^ in
perl!



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