in reply to Multiline match

Whatever you are trying: "patch-5.1.1.21510.gpg" will not match to your $output because of the ".gpg" extension...

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Re^2: Multiline match
by arunbhargav (Novice) on May 23, 2013 at 16:27 UTC
    patch-5.1.1.21510 is a substring of patch-5.1.1.21510.gpg, hence it should match. All it wants to match is patch-5.1.1.21510, it doesnt care about gpg
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      hdb's point was your code boils down to 'patch-5.1.1.21510' =~ /patch-5.1.1.21510.gpg/;, which is backwards from what you need. The behavior you seek would look more like 

      my @array = split('\n',$output);
if (  grep { 'patch-5.1.1.21510.gpg' =~ /\Q$_\E/  } @array ) {
      print "Match found\n";
}

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      Though, as implemented, you'd have problems because of whitespace. For this case, you'd probably be better off using index.

      #11929 First ask yourself `How would I do this without a computer?' Then have the computer do it the same way.

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        Exactly!

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      But your explanation was the other way round.

      plz try to show us a reproducible code example instead of wording.

      Cheers Rolf

      ( addicted to the Perl Programming Language)

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        Sorry about the confusion, the following is the code I have been trying 
        my $str = "update
 patch-5.1.1.21510";
my $patch = "patch-5.1.1.21510.gpg";

if ($str =~/$patch/ms) {
   print "Yes \n";
}

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