heidi,

ikegami++

You have not clearly given what you are going to achieve. The following works as per your logic. 

use strict;
use warnings;

my ($first, $last) = $find =~ /([A-Z])[A-Z]*([A-Z])/; #extract first a
+nd last character

if ($string =~ /$first/ && $string =~ /$last/) #check both character p
+resent in string
{
    my $out;

    for ($first..$last)   #increment inbetween characters
    {
        $out =  $out.$_ ;
    }

    print "'$find' string found" if ($string =~ /$out/); # if found pr
+int the string
}

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or Simply
my $string = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPCDEFQRST";

my $find="CDEF";

print "'$find' string found" if ($string =~ /$find/);

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Prasad

In reply to Re: doubt in string matching. by prasadbabu
in thread doubt in string matching. by heidi

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