in reply to Regex problem

If you are actually testing equivalence, it could be both faster and not prone interpolation problems to if you use eq instead of a regex. This also works for substrings if you know placement within the test string.

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Re^2: Regex problem
by Anonymous Monk on Dec 15, 2008 at 20:22 UTC
    I just tried that and it still doesn't work. Another note is that I have tested what the code outputs for both the $manuCode and $manuID. For each code the id looks identical. What it seems like I'm getting is ASD=ASD for example.
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      I threw your code into my editor and threw in use strict. Most looks fine, but the %catReplace hash doesn't get initialized anywhere I can see - would this matter? The other obvious possibility is that you've got whitespace problems. Have you tried seeing if length returns the expected values?
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        Thank you all for the help. Was not a coding problem but a converting problem. I now truely hate CSV files. Added a newline break which i got rid of and another unknown character I just used substr to get rid of.
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