in reply to How to ignore special characters in a variable ?

You want to know whether $string appears in $line, and possibly, where within the line it appears. This exactly matches the specification of the index() builtin routine. Try typing perldoc -f index into an xterm window, or check out CPAN's search facility.

As Occam said: Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem.

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Re^2: How to ignore special characters in a variable ?
by Anonymous Monk on Feb 17, 2011 at 05:34 UTC
    Thanks.

    btw I loved the quote "Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem".