in reply to regex in password changing

my $old = "......"; my $new = "......"; my $diff = $old ^ $new; my $cnt = $diff =~ y/\0//cd;

Now $cnt holds the amount of character by character differences.

Abigail

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Re: Re: regex in password changing
by jcpunk (Friar) on Jun 27, 2003 at 15:19 UTC
    thank you very much for that bit of code
    jcpunk

    by the way thanks for all the help that was, is, and will be