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You're obviously right about the regex, but would you need it in the first place? If your file looks like
foo
bar
baz

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and the input is "foo\n", why would you want to:am I missing something, or isn't it just easier to say $name eq $_ and leave it at that?

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RE: RE: Re: Useless Program
by ivory (Pilgrim) on Jun 02, 2000 at 03:12 UTC
    Well...if you don't use ^ and $ it could match a name that includes the name you are searching for...for example if $name = 'bob' it would match bobbie, bobby, etc... Just a thought... --Amber
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RE: RE: Re: Useless Program
by btrott (Parson) on Jun 02, 2000 at 00:24 UTC
    No, you're right--in this case, that's much easier, faster, and better. I suppose I was just giving general advice (quoting meta-characters, not escaping $, etc.).

    Of course, the easiest would probably be just to use tie and a DBM, as was mentioned (and for which the code was even provided).

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      Actually, you'd make a better teacher than myself. :)

      I was sticking strictly to the problem at hand, while you were expanding it and recommending good practices. I tend to have a very focused-on-the-job frame of mind when I read other people's code. I'll be as stupid as a debugger. At any rate, the DBM suggestion makes more sense anyway. I was just being picky.

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