Hi, i'm relativly new to Perl and am having trouble getting a simple match to work. I am setting up a site search for a website and my script takes in a searchword and uses it in an exact matching statement with the other html pages on the site. i am loading each HTML page into a variable like this "$content = <INPUT>;" and then matching like this... "if($content =~ m/^$searchword$/)" ($searchword is the variable where the users search is stored) This is not working and i don't know why?? All i want it to do is if a user searches for "page", they do not get matches like "pa" or "pag". Only the exact string. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Thanks guys...problem solved.

In reply to Matching problem by rtlm

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