> -----Original Message-----
> From: Umesh T G [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, May 19, 2006 8:54 AM
> To: Perl Beginners
> Subject: Grep a variable
>
> Hi List,
>
> I am trying to grep a variable from a scalar value. Here is the
example
> below.
>
> $var = "mydisk";
> $line = "mydisk is bad";
>
> if (grep/\$var/,$line) {
\$ tells perl to treat the '$' as a literal character.
Try:
$var = "mydisk";
$line = "mydisk is bad";
if ( grep /$var/, $line ) {
print "disk is not bad\n";
}
And _always_:
use strict;
use warnings;
And remember to scope your variables:
http://perl.plover.com/FAQs/Namespaces.html
ry
> print "disk is not bad";
> }
>
> This does not seems to work.
>
> Please help me out in figuring out this.
>
> TIA,
>
> Cheers,
> Umesh
>
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