On Feb 20, Kevin Old said: > if($a =~ qw/sorry/) { $sorry = 1; last SWITCH; } > if($a =~ qw/kevin/) { $kevin = 1; last SWITCH; } > if($a =~ qw/larry/) { $larry = 1; last SWITCH;}
Uh, qw// is not the right thing to use there. Perhaps q// or qq// or qr//. Or, better yet, m//. Or just //, since the 'm' is optional. -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ ** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by Manning, in 2002 ** <stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course. [ I'm looking for programming work. If you like my work, let me know. ] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]