On 6 Aug., 16:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yitzle) wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 4:29 AM, Kenneth Brun Nielsen
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Within a perl program, I want to go to a particular mode when a
> > keyword is found. The keyword is a regexp.
>
> > E.g.
> > #!/usr/bin/perl -w
> > open FILEHANDLE, "soatest.soa";
> > while (<FILEHANDLE>){
> > if (/^\*| XI/) {
> > print "match in line: $.\n";
> > }
> > }
>
> > This conditional seems to be true for all lines (although they don't
> > match /^\*| XI/). What is the correct syntax?
>
> > Best regards,
> > Kenneth
>
> It helps if you can provide sample data that you can replicate the issue with.
Thanks, Yitzle. In the mean time, I found out that the problem was the
regex. I forgot to escape the pipe.
/Kenneth
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