Re: String Match

You don't need quotes inside the regex (the paired slashes do that job), including them searches for quotes inside your string, which you don't have. That makes:

if($line =~ m/API#/) {
  ...
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UPDATE: Thanks for the replies, as ww indicates, you actually want to negate the search on the second # symbol, as his solution does (see below).

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Re^2: String Match by ww (Archbishop) on Nov 30, 2009 at 13:06 UTC
Almost. `if($line =~ m/API#[^#]/) { ...` [download] The negative character class makes the regex reject the doubled-#, as per OP's question. Update: Better answer below at Re^3: String Match. ++ happy.barney!	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: String Match by happy.barney (Friar) on Nov 30, 2009 at 13:19 UTC
better is to use negative look around assertion: `m/API#(?!#)/`, it match also end of line.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: String Match by zeni (Beadle) on Nov 30, 2009 at 13:03 UTC
This din't solve the problem. It says "Matched".	[reply]