----- Original Message -----
From: "Hardy Merrill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 11:21 AM
Subject: Re: Strange matching problem...
> HM>> I don't see any matching logic in your code below, but here's a
> general thought - instead of a string equality check ( if ($acct1 eq
> $acct2) ), you could use a regular expression with the "i" (ignore case
> flag) something like ( if ($acct1 =~ /$acct2/i )
>
Sorry, that this is a bit off topic but couldn't resist...
This is for the (hopefully small) percentage of readers that are not fluent
in "regular expressions", and might use this advice in the future.
A better check would be add the anchors ^,$
if ($acct1 =~ /^$acct2$/i) {
#do something
}
In order to get an exact character match. Otherwise you are checking to see
if $acct2 is a subset of $acct1.
For example the two strings
$acct1 = "XABCX";
$acct2 = "abc";
would match without ^,$
