Hi All, I'm trying to match the first leter in a string after i pull the string from a hash table. Here is a peace of the code. 
#################
# PRINT RESULTS #
#################

while ($db->FetchRow()) {

    if(($row>=$min)&&($row<$max)) {

        my (%dbrow) = $db->DataHash();

        # Change the color of the row
        my $bgcolor="#E6E6D7";
        
        if ($color % 2 !=0) {
            $bgcolor = "#DDDDDD";
        }
        
        my $title="$dbrow{'Title'}";

        if ($title =~ /^$layer/) {
            do something...
        }
    }
}

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So if the first letter in the title is "A", then i will print out all the records where that's true. Right now i'm not getting anything. I don't think that i'm doing the match correctly. Someone Please Help. Thanxs - Kiko

In reply to Matching the first letter in a string by Kiko

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