Re: grep for array-of-strings from an array-of-strings

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Re: Re: grep for array-of-strings from an array-of-strings by nothingmuch (Priest) on Apr 09, 2003 at 19:25 UTC
That'll match "this is a test". It needs to also contain 'another'. It's an AND boolean, not an OR boolean search... -nuffin zz zZ Z Z #!perl	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: grep for array-of-strings from an array-of-strings by Improv (Pilgrim) on Apr 10, 2003 at 04:27 UTC
Oh.. if you want an AND, perhaps the look-ahead operator is what you want? I think it shouldn't be too hard to programmatically construct a regex with that style either..	[reply]
Re: Re: grep for array-of-strings from an array-of-strings by zby (Vicar) on Apr 09, 2003 at 19:22 UTC
And here is some code for it: `my $criteria = join "\|", @searchCriteria;` and then use it in the regex like that: `/$criteria/` Update: I realized that the 'and' case is much more difficult that the 'or' case that I presented. I would use eval for it: `my $criteria = join "/ and /", @searchCriteria; $criteria = "/$criteria/";` and then use it like this `grep {eval $criteria}`. Which is just your second code dynamically generated.	[reply] [d/l] [select]