Greetings,

I'm trying to figure out how to compare a value to certain characters within a word, using an if statement.

For example, let's say I have this:

$word = "bummer";

I want to check to see if the value of "mme" is == to the 3rd, 4th, and 5th characters of $word

I don't want to just grep "mme" out of a word (that would be easy). I want to specifically compare a value to the 3rd, 4th, and 5th characters of a word.

So that,

$word = "bummer";

$match = "mme";

if (insert code here == $match)

{

print "Gotta match\n";

}

else {print "No match\n";}

How do I go about doing that?

Thanks for your help!

In reply to Character matching in a word? by ausag

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