Steve,
Change your regular expression to:
if ($source =~ /^\b$help\b)
This sets up $help inside of a word boundry.
Steve
On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 09:22:07PM -0000, Steve Massey wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I know this should be easy, but I'm at a loss
>
> I want to match Help
>
> Help ## match this
> Helps ## not match this
>
> I am using syntax below, but it's not working
>
> $help = "Help";
>
> if ($source =~ /^$help/)
>
> any ideas
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Steve
>
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