Wise Monks,
In a command line telephonebook search program, people can use any number of arguments which must all match.
Example:
TelSearch.pl bill clinton
Searches for all entries that have both 'bill' AND 'clinton' in the entrystring (which contains name, alias, room# etc)
Is it possible to make ONE regexp for this purpose? It would be easy if the order of the arguments mattered, but it doesn't. Example:
TelSearch.pl bill clinton
Needs to find the same entries as
TelSearch.pl clinton bill
I currently use something like this:
my $flag = 1;
foreach (@ARGV)
{
if ($entry !~ m/\Q$_\E/)
{
$flag = 0;
}
}
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