Pattern matching -- exact match

[skw]

I'm tearing my hair out on this one. I've searched through tek-tips but could not find a distinct answer for my question.

my search function script matches and finds a string, but I want to make the string search to be an *exact match*.

If I type in mybox1, it also finds mybox14, but I only want it to find 'mybox1'

I have this
if ($srch_host) {
$LookFor .= "\.$srch_hostHost";
}
else {
$LookFor .= '\.\w+?';
}

Thanks for the help.

 

[raider2001]

For an exact match define the beginning (^) and end ($) of the line. Here's an example:

@Strings = ("abc1234", "1abc123", "abc123");
$Match = "abc123";
foreach $String (@Strings) {
    if ($String =~ m|^$Match$|) { # another way if ($String eq $Match) {
       print "String '$String' is an exact match for '$Match' \n";
    }
}

 

[skw]

I'm still not getting it

 

[fishiface]

Why use the regular expression engine at all? The [tt]eq[/tt] operator is made for the job.

Yours,


fish

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