Re: Regex from string

You need qr here and escape right paranthesis. Also have a look at perlre.

my $line = "root (hd1,1)";
my $match = qr/root \(hd[0-9],[0-9]\)/;

if ($line =~ m/$match/is) {

    print "match 1 found \n";

}
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updated: changed qw to qr. Zaxo++ Thanks.

Prasad

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Re^2: Regex from string by Zaxo (Archbishop) on May 31, 2006 at 10:39 UTC
No. The qw operator returns a list, splitting on whitespace. That will place only the last element of the list, `$hd[0-9],[0-9]$)`, in $match. After Compline, Zaxo	[reply] [d/l]