Sorry,
This will return a true value even if the search string is embedded in another string.
index ("Hello World", "Wor") will return not return -1, eventhough that may not be
what you wanted.
Try
if ($string_from_file =~ m/\b$search_string\b/)
This may be the one you are looking for
hth,
Sudarsan
Sudarsan Raghavan wrote:
> Use index (preldoc -f index).
> index ($str_from_file, $search_string);
> This will return a -1 if $search_string is not present in $str_from_file.
>
> hth,
> Sudarsan
>
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