shawn wilson wrote:
On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 3:29 PM,<sono...@fannullone.us> wrote:
It is detecting but not testing if any particular 2 words are in a
text field and I think that's what you explained you were testing for.
Sorry if my first post was misleading. Those were just some examples.
I'm looking only for an occurrence of _any_ two words in that list, not a
particular combination. Though the most common combo is a PO Box and a street
address.
You can say: if (/box/i&& /street/i) {
rather than the more complex: if ($str =~ /box/i&& $str =~ /street/i)
my $address_count = () = $str =~ /box|street|avenue|lane|apo/ig;
what does print $var = () = $str =~ /regex/; do?
particularly the '= () ='?
per the question, maybe something like this:
my @match = [ qr/one/i, qr/two/i, qr/etc/i ];
my @words = split /[^\s]+/, $fields;
/[^\s]+/ can also be represented as /\S+/.
But that stores whitespace strings in @words, not actual words.
John
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