Hej igen alla,

O.K, this time I've got a wierd regex problem. I thought I was doing this right but I guess not...

I'm parsing through a text file, line by line looking for a match on names. The actual list is airport names so I enter in "rlanda" as the string to match (partial name).

My logic is as follows: 

      if ($lines1 =~ /$search*/i) {
            print $lines[0]." - ".$lines1."\n";
      }

It appears to work, matching regardless of case. However I'm getting very close but not exact matches. Heres a list of what (according to my logic) matches. 

Summerland Automatic Weather Reporting System
Westerland / Sylt
Orland Iii
Stockholm / Arlanda
Latrobe / Westmorland
Orlando, Orlando International Airport
Orlando, Orlando Executive Airport
Orlando / Sanford Airport
Worland, Worland Municipal Airport
Uberlandia

It matching those with "rland" but why is it not using the last "a" in "rlanda" to filter it to just "Arlanda". Is it something to do with *?

Can anyone point out what the hell I'm doing wrong?

- Jed

In reply to Wierd Regex stuff.. by Speedfreak

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