hi monks,

i am a little stumped. i thought the following code would assign to the variable "match" the value of the item in the array that the variable "term" matches, but i'm getting nada.

can anyone tell me why, or if i'm doing something wrong?
#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

my @myTerms = ( 'foo bar', 'blah' );

my $term = "foo";

if ( grep /\Q$term\E/,  @myTerms) {
  # the line that i'm having trouble with - $match always = null. 
  my ($match) = ( grep $term =~ /\Q$_\E/,  @myTerms );
  print "$term does match with $match\n";
} # end-if

exit;

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cheers,
reagen

In reply to regex to return matched value from array by rsiedl

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