First off, thanks all for your previous help.

OK, while I know a radio button would be easiest for this solution, I'm fairly confident that most of my users will just get confused. But I still want to offer the extra ability to those wise few. (Besides, this is a fun little learning project.) So I need to just do everything auto-magicly. If I can't remove the "/"s from the grep line, can I do something like:

grep /$searchtext/$modifiers @stuff

Problem is, I'm reasonably sure this will not work. I also am nervous about this not being able to handle any regex the highly-skilled user may input. Essentially, I'm looking at getting the following to work:

@stuff = ('This is some text.','This is more text.');
$stext = '/some/i';

($null, $text, $mod) = split(/\//, $stext);

foreach (grep /$text/$mod, @stuff) {
    print $_, "\n";
}

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Can anyone get this to work? BTW, please tell me if I'm being an annoying-newbie, and I'll go away.

In reply to Re: Re: How can grep search based on text or pattern based on user input? by gryphon
in thread How can grep search based on text or pattern based on user input? by Russ

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