On Oct 30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>$test = "one day I went to the zoo";
>
>and I want to find how many characters into $test the word "went" is, how
>do I go about that?
The simple index() function:
if (($pos = index($test, "went")) > -1) {
print "'went' was found at position $pos\n";
}
else {
print "'went' was not found\n";
}
The only problem is that you will also find "twenty". If you want greater
control, you'll need a regex:
# requires Perl 5.6
if ($test =~ /\bwent\b/) {
$pos = $-[0];
}
# or, for pre-5.6 Perls
if ($test =~ /(.*?)\bwent\b/) {
$pos = length $1;
}
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