On Jun 25, Beau E. Cox said:
>my $string = 'I love c++';
>my $compare = 'some compare string';
>if ($compare =~ /$string/) {
> print "$compare contains $string\n";
>} else {
> print "$compare does not contain $string\n";
>}
Why don't you want to use
if (index($compare, $string) > -1) { ... }
There's no need to use the regex engine if you're absolutely NOT using
patterns.
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