On Tuesday, September 2, 2003, at 01:52 PM, Dan Muey wrote:
if($mystr =~ m/^exactstr$/) { print 'Ye haw it matches!'; }
This isn't a pattern, this is an equality test. I would consider the above a poor use of Regular Expressions. $mystr =~ /^exactstr$/ is identical to $mystr eq 'exactstr' except the second is a lot more efficient.
The $mystr =~ /^exactstr$/i match you hint at but don't show is a different story though and would be a reasonable way to test case insensitive equality, I think.
Reasonable maybe, I would still go with if (lc ($mystr) eq lc ($exactstr)) {...} :-)
James
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