Dear freinds,

Please let me know if anyone can give me that one line code that I need to put in my perl program that will really help me with my school homework.

I am very new to perl and struggling to write this simple program.

I have to write a CGI program that, given a user-specified search string, finds all words
(based on my /usr/share/dict/words file) that match this search string.


For example if I type " AN " in the search panel, the program will show me the related words from the dict file:

ANomaly

ANatomy

ANonymously

If I type "JAN" in the search panel, the program will show me:

JANuary

JANet

JANmiller

and so on ..

So far I came up with these set of codes:

$search='an';
open(W,"/usr/share/dict/words);
while (<W>) {
    print if m/$search/;
}

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but it only searches for "an". What if I want to search for any word ?? What would the search string be ?

Help please

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Please help me. Regards, Mash

In reply to Need Simple Perl Help plz by mashficool

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