On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 04:35:11PM -0500, Maurice Reeves wrote:
> not quite. \w matches _ also, and he didn't have
> that in his list.
>
> how about
> $searchstring =~ /^[a-z0-9]+/i;
I'm not sure why you're both anchoring the pattern. He didn't specify it
had to start with a letter or number, he said it needs to be in the string.
$searchstring =~ /[a-z0-9]/i;
Michael
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