in reply to Setting Conditional Variable Based on Partial Match

Are you trying to assign the value 'S' or 'I' to the variable $type? If so, use =, not eq. It is the assignment operator.

Update (~2min after initial post): Ahh! Everyone just updated their replies! Mine looks pathetic now :P

And you didn't even know bears could type.

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Re^2: Setting Conditional Variable Based on Partial Match
by Osiris1975 (Novice) on Dec 23, 2008 at 20:41 UTC
    Yes, thats what I was trying to do. Thanks for the correction :) In SAS, which I know marginally better, you use "=" for numerical assigment and "eq" for character assignments so I thought perl might be the same.
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