Re: regex match in array

( {map { $_ => 1 } @myTerms}->{"term"}
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That's a hard way to do it. Try this.

    grep $_ eq "term",  @myTerms
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Then doing the regex comes out trivially:

    grep /TE(.)M/i, @myTerms
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Dave.

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Re: Re: regex match in array by rsiedl (Friar) on May 27, 2004 at 13:24 UTC
Cool, thanks. Thats just a bit easier :)	[reply]
Re: Re: regex match in array by rsiedl (Friar) on May 27, 2004 at 14:20 UTC
Not sure how I should do this but i have a follow-up question. Should it be posted as a new node or in reply...? Anyway this time I'll do it as a reply and if it is the wrong thing just let me know. The question is: How can i get the match to match at least a whole item from the array? i.e. `#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; my @myTerms = ( 'blah foo', 'test' ); my $term = "blah"; if ( grep /\Q$term\E/, @myTerms) { print "$term does match\n"; } # end-if exit;` [download] will match, but i would only like it to match if the _term_ is /^blah foo(.*)/ Could you help me out? Cheers, Reagen	[reply] [d/l]