I am trying to write a regular expression that will store the actual string matched as a variable so it can be compared to another string matched in another regular expression.. I have used the following but when i print out $thisresult it seems to have stored 1 (positive) as opposed to the actual string matched. I am trying to write a script that will only print "expression found" if the string matched is not the same as the string matched previously.

$thisresult = ($teststring =~ /[aft][edt].[ftg]...v{2,3}/g); 
            if ($thisresult)
            {if (!$lastresult)
            {print "Expression found\n";
            }
            }
            $lastresult = $thisresult;
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Any ideas?

edited: Thu Jun 27 14:24:25 2002 by jeffa - added code tags