Hi Corion and everyone

thanks in advance for your answer. The problem is not that it can't read the file. The lines i posted above where just there for shorten the problem. I usually put the "use strict" pragma and the die() instruction in my scripts to prevent what you correctly pointed out.

This time, indeed, the problem is that if I try to match the array's elements without cycling them with a foreach, I can't get a match.

I'll try to post a maybe better example

#!/usr/bin/perl

my @array = qw( ciccio paperino palla gigio pluto );

my $test = pluto;

if ( $test =~ $array[0..$#array] ) {

        print "It matched!\n";

}

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didn't work for me. Is the syntax wrong? Am I missing something? Thanks again for your help.

In reply to Re^2: Regex and array by Deus Ex
in thread Regex and array by Deus Ex

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