Re: [MacPerl] sub-search match novice question

[Ronald J Kimball <rjk@linguist.dartmouth.edu>]

On Sun, Sep 05, 1999 at 03:28:21AM -0700, Larry F. Allen-Tonar wrote:
> Randy,
> cc: Bart,
> At 1:45 AM 9/5/99, Bart Lateur wrote:
> >On Sat, 4 Sep 1999 22:51:28 -0400, Randy M. Zeitman wrote:
> >>I'm matching a string to text file of records (rows). Each entry (column)
> >>in each record is tab separated (a la spreadsheet).
> >>But sometimes I want to only match against columns 2,3,and 4, of all
> ...
> >                if("@field[2,4,7]" =~ /searchterm/) {
> ...
> Note that this form no longer has the tabs to delineate fields in the
> searchterm.

Note that you snipped too much of Bart's code.  The first line in that code
block was:

        local $" = "\t"; # why not?


Ronald

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