Hi monks, I need to match a user input, like for example if a user needs to enter "hsbn" , he can enter "h" or "hs" or "hsbn" or any portion of the string hsbn. Depending upon the user's response some action is being performed. Please refer to the code I have wriiten.But it's working only if we give complete string "hsbn". 
my $valid = 0;
my $state;
my $firstAttempt = 1;
while(!$valid){
        if($firstAttempt) {
             $state = promptUser("What network to listen for SNMP trap
+s [hsbn or admin]? ", "admin"); ;
                                $firstAttempt = 0;
                        }
                        else {
                                $state = promptUser("ERROR:$state Inva
+lid Re-enter the network");
                        }
                        if($state =~ /hsbn|admin/) {
                                $valid = 1;
                        }
                }

                
                if ($state =~ /hsbn/i) {
                    //some action
                }

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plese suggest something...

In reply to matching a regular expression by s_gaurav1091

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