Re^4: Need RegExp help - doing an AND match

Yes, I know what you mean but I'm not matching explicit text - here is an example:

@words = ("filename" , "file.txt");
$line = "my file is file.txt";
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I want to search this line and save it in a variable for later. These work assuming no lines contain both words:

$file = (grep{$line =~ /$_/i} @words)[0];

or

foreach (@words) {
  next if($line !~ /$_/i);
  $file = $_;
}
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So both work ($file is nonempty) but not good.
Problem is that I will need to pass a variable into my RegExp for my search - which may or may not contain a "."

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Re^5: Need RegExp help - doing an AND match by parv (Parson) on Jul 01, 2007 at 21:12 UTC
You seemed to have missed the quoting of dot part in Corion's reply. In any case, refer to the `quotemeta` function description, usage of which would be something like ... `my @words = map { quotemeta $_ } ( "filename" , "file.text" );` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]