Thx again
-----Original Message-----
From: Mr. Shawn H. Corey [mailto:shawnhco...@magma.ca]
Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 10:53 AM
To: Gu, Han
Cc: 'beginners@perl.org'
Subject: Re: Trying to match window's path
On Thu, 2008-12-18 at 10:50 -0500, Mr. Shawn H. Corey wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-12-18 at 10:42 -0500, Gu, Han wrote:
> > Hi,
> > Still very noob when it comes to perl. Just have a quick question. I am
> > trying to match a string that is window's path
> >
> > Sample,
> >
> > $s1 = "c:\\log\s1.log";
> >
> > $s2 = $s1;
> >
> > If ($s1 =~ m/$s2/i) {
> > print "matched\n";
> > }
> >
> > It just wouldn't match. I can put the actual string into m//i, which would
> > work, but I have to make it work with variable, since I'll be reading in
> > the actual string from a file.
> >
> > Greatly appreciate any answer I get.
> >
> > Thx
> >
> > Han
>
> To match non-alphanumeric characters in a string, you need to quotemeta
> it.
>
> if( $s1 =~ m/\Q$s2\E/i ){
> # ...
>
> Or
>
> my $s2 = quotemeta( $s1 );
> if( $s1 =~ m/$s2/i ){
> # ...
>
>
> See:
> perldoc quotemeta
> perldoc perlretut
> perldoc prelre
Oops, that would be:
perldoc -f quotemeta
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Shawn
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