in reply to Confused by a Conditional

Here's another way of doing it in addition to the ones already mentioned:

if (' ID TITLE GENE CYTOBAND LOCUSLINK CHROMOSOME SCOUNT ' =~ m/ $key 
+/) {
    print "stuff.\n";
}

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NOTE: The spaces in this solution are key in making sure the right word is being matched.

Zenon Zabinski | zdog | zdog7@hotmail.com

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Re: (zdog) Re: Confused by a Conditional
by ZZamboni (Curate) on Jun 09, 2001 at 22:06 UTC
    Note that if $key is a user-provided value, doing this is not a good idea. At the very least you would want to enclose the whole thing in an eval in case $key contains some characters that upset the match operator (for example, if $key contains **, the program will die with "nested *?+ in regexp"). In the worst case, $key could contain something that makes Perl execute arbitrary code. So for doing something like this, you have to make sure that $key is properly untainted.

    Update: You could also use \Q, as in "string" =~ m/ \Q$key /

    --ZZamboni

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