Re^2: Regular Expression problem with $variable =~ m/C++/

Thank you, 'quotemeta' is a very good solution. I have also tried already the use of \Q...\E.

You are right when you speak (for example) about 'c' letter in Visual Basic. Fortunately I have to compare always complex names that are never included in other name.
Thank you for your support!

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Re^3: Regular Expression problem with $variable =~ m/C++/ by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jun 12, 2007 at 16:35 UTC
You might find the following useful: `my @matches = grep { ",$Array[$_]," =~ /,\Q$VarString\E,/i } 0..$#Arra +y;` [download] `@matches` will contain the indexes (0, 1, 2 and/or 3) or the elements of @Array that contains the matching substrings. The commas ensure `C` won't match `VISUAL BASIC`, and the `i` ensures `Perl` will match `PERL`. If the same item won't appear in two array elements, then you can use the following version to store the index in `$match`: `my ($match) = grep { ",$Array[$_]," =~ /,\Q$VarString\E,/i } 0..$#Arra +y;` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re^3: Regular Expression problem with $variable =~ m/C++/
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jun 12, 2007 at 16:35 UTC

my @matches = grep { ",$Array[$_]," =~ /,\Q$VarString\E,/i } 0..$#Arra
+y;
[download]

@matches will contain the indexes (0, 1, 2 and/or 3) or the elements of @Array that contains the matching substrings. The commas ensure C won't match VISUAL BASIC, and the i ensures Perl will match PERL.

If the same item won't appear in two array elements, then you can use the following version to store the index in $match:

my ($match) = grep { ",$Array[$_]," =~ /,\Q$VarString\E,/i } 0..$#Arra
+y;
[download]

[reply]
[d/l]
[select]