Hi List,
How can I test whether a person's name (which is the variable called
$vars::name) is in a particular file ( "links.dat")? The file is simply a
list of names all separated by the newline character, i.e,
Harry\n
Joe\n
Jane Doe\n
When I change my pattern-to-match to the literal string I'm testing for,
say, "Harry", the code works. But it NEVER finds "$vars::name" .
The code in question:
###
open(LINKS, "$statedir/links.dat") || die "Error at LINKS: $!";
@people = <LINKS>;
$pattern_to_match = "$vars::name"; #$vars::name is Harry, but the code
won't find him
#$pattern_to_match = "Harry"; # the code will find Harry
for (@people) {
if ( /$pattern_to_match/) {
print "a match ";
} # end if
else {
print "no match ";
&print_link; # print a hyperlink to the home page
} # end else
} #end for loop
###
I've been reading up on regular expressions, pattern matching, etc. to no
avail. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I have a feeling I am making
an obvious mistake but I can't figure out what it is.
Thanks.
--A Dogged Newbie
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