Again, I have some code that works but I'm sure it could be better written using a regex that I don't know how to write. My code is:

$sTest = uc($sTest);
if (uc($sLine) eq "REM $sTest" || Left(uc($sLine), 5 + length($sTest))
+ eq "REM $sTest ") {

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Left is a sub I have written to help me until I get out of the habit of writing VBA instead of Perl. It's a very basic call to substr.

I have been trying to write something along the lines of:

if ($sLine =~ m/rem $sTest€/i) {

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The problem I have is replacing the € with something that means "a space or the end of the string". I'm not sure whether Corion is hinting at how to do this in Re: Regex - Matching prefixes of a word or whether it means "one or the other, but not both in a single construct". Either way, that is the closest my searching has come to an answer. Is there a better one, please?

TIA & Regards,

John Davies

In reply to Space or end of string in regex by davies

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