Re: regex issue

well this is nor really speedy

my $found = 0;
while (<$fh>) {
   $found = 1 if index($_, $student) == 0;
}
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Re: Re: regex issue by matija (Priest) on Feb 27, 2004 at 21:08 UTC
There's a problem with your code: It will give a false positive if you have a name which is identical to part of a shorter name (for instance: John Smith would match, even though the name in the file is John Smithers).	[reply]
Re: Re: regex issue by Anonymous Monk on Feb 27, 2004 at 21:00 UTC
what did you do :)) , What does the index function do ? thanks	[reply]
Re: Re: regex issue by Anonymous Monk on Feb 27, 2004 at 21:03 UTC
Hummmmmmmm , doesn't work my friend!!!! prints duplicate entries.	[reply]