RE: [MacPerl] Wildcard

["Mark T. Johns" <mark.johns@dawsonhost.dawson.com>]

Check the perl documentation. I am not at my mac right now, but you should
find the docs in shuck.

You are describing Regular Expressions, which perl does very well. Your
example would look like this:

	if($text =~ m/^t/){print....

The ^ anchors the match to the start of the string, which prevents it from
matching "Ma t ch".

Jeffrey Friedl's book Mastering Regular Expressions (O'Reilly) is excellent.
Also, get and read the Camel book, also from O'Reilly)

HTH

-Mark

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> Subject: [MacPerl] Wildcard
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>
> Hi!
>
> Is there a way to use wildcards in perl? It would be nice if the folowing
> would work:
>
> if ($text eq "t*") {print "$text\n"} # Where * is a wildcard
>
> So the print comand is executed when $text is "tee" or "time" or ...
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> Thomas
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