2009/11/16 Daniel Burgaud <burg...@gmail.com>
> Hi,
>
> my $line = "Unconfirmed";
>
> I need an RE that will give me a TRUE value if the string is 2~8 chars
> long.
> otherwise, it gives FALSE;
>
> I tried
>
> if ($line =~ /\S{2,8}/) {
> return 1;
> } else {
> return 0;
> }
>
> However this does not work.
>
> I cannot use length($line) because it has to be Regular expression.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Dan
>
>
You probably want the start and end of line anchors:
use strict;
use warnings;
while (<DATA>)
{
print _regexp( $_ ) ? "TRUE\n" : "FALSE\n";
}
sub _regexp
{
my $line = shift;
if ( $line =~ /^\S{2,8}$/)
{
return 1;
}
else
{
return 0;
}
}
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