in reply to Add characters to search value
What have you tried so far?
How did you implement the search?
#!/usr/bin/perl -l use strict; use warnings; my @names = ( 'Jones', 'Jones Jr', 'Jones Sr', 'Jones abc', 'Jones ', ); # may be filled from form value my $search = 'Jones'; my @regex = ( # simple qr{\Q$search\E}, # anchored qr{^\Q$search\E$}, # anchored and extended qr{^\Q$search\E(?:\s+\w+)?$}, ); for my $regex ( @regex ) { print "\n\n$regex"; for my $name ( @names ) { print "matched: $name" if $name =~ $regex; } } __END__
Beware; there's still room for improvement. Try that example and examine the results.
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Re^2: Add characters to search value
by Anonymous Monk on May 22, 2009 at 18:13 UTC |