hi
i have a bit of a puzzling question. well, puzzling to me anyway.
i have a sub which is passed 2 arguments. a wildcard search, and an actual
string to search in.
the wildcard search could be anything like an exact match with no wildcards
in, or a proper wildcarded search. such as:
*.co.uk
someones.hostname.com
etc and it has to search through a list of hosts and return only the ones
that match the search string supplied.
the sub i have is:
sub wcmhost {
$temp1 = shift;
$temp2 = shift;
($temp1 = quotemeta $temp1) =~ s/\\\*/.*/g;
if ($temp2 =~ $temp1) { return 1; }
else { return 0; }
}
whereas this is all very well, but if i search for *.uk, it won't just
return hostnames ending in ".uk", but it will return a host such as
"this.is.my.ukhostname.net", matching the ".uk" inside it too. what
modifications do i need to make to this sub so it only matches what's given,
and wildcards where there's a *?
temp1 is the search string, temp2 is the actual string it has to search in.
the sub is called from within a foreach loop which loops through a list of
hostnames, and responds according to the 1 or 0 this sub returns.
thanks for all your help,
dan
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