Not sure how I should do this but i have a follow-up question. Should it be posted as a new node or in reply...?
Anyway this time I'll do it as a reply and if it is the wrong thing just let me know.

The question is:
How can i get the match to match at least a whole item from the array?
i.e. 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
my @myTerms = ( 'blah foo', 'test' );
my $term = "blah";
if ( grep /\Q$term\E/,  @myTerms) {
        print "$term does match\n";
} # end-if
exit;

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will match, but i would only like it to match if the _term_ is /^blah foo(.*)/
Could you help me out?
Cheers,
Reagen

In reply to Re: Re: regex match in array by rsiedl
in thread regex match in array by rsiedl

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