Re: (MeowChow) Re: TMTOWTDI isn't best in this case

Your SELECT will miss this case:

p${b}.zip
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which is one of the ones I listed.

And while I'm replying to things, Ovid, the SELECT * was just an example of what I'm doing, I am being explicit about which rows I am getting.

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(Ovid - did you test this?) Re(3) TMTOWTDI isn't best in this case by Ovid (Cardinal) on Jul 24, 2001 at 03:41 UTC
But `p${b}.zip` is the same as `p$b.zip`, thus interpolating `$b` and eliminating the braces. If you're unsure of this, you can do the following: `my $b=7; print ${b};` [download] That prints 7, thus making MeowChow's solution a viable one. I know it looks odd, but it's valid Perl and it works with warnings and strict. I'm using 5.6.1. Does this fail on other versions of Perl? Cheers, Ovid Vote for paco! Join the Perlmonks Setiathome Group or just click on the the link and check out our stats.	[reply] [d/l]
(MeowChow) Re3: TMTOWTDI isn't best in this case by MeowChow (Vicar) on Jul 24, 2001 at 03:28 UTC
I originally had it as `'p%b%'`, but changed it after thinking (apparently incorrectly) that `$b` was an interpolated value. Implementation trivia notwithstanding, the principle is the same. MeowChow s aamecha.s a..a\u$&owag.print	[reply]