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Perl-Users Digest, Issue: 8491 Volume: 10
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Thu Oct 6 03:05:38 2005
Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 00:05:07 -0700 (PDT)
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Perl-Users Digest Thu, 6 Oct 2005 Volume: 10 Number: 8491
Today's topics:
Re: regexp includes a dot in string robic0@yahoo.com
Digest Administrivia (Last modified: 6 Apr 01) (Perl-Users-Digest Admin)
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Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 22:46:35 -0700
From: robic0@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: regexp includes a dot in string
Message-Id: <jce9k1pcbrbj5ml9mt92tdd7322ck32jvl@4ax.com>
On Wed, 05 Oct 2005 02:42:35 GMT, "William Hymen"
<t18_pilot@hotmail.spam.com> wrote:
>All,
>
>I would like to use a regular expression pattern
>match to search for a string containing a dot
>and not have it equivalent to a wildcard.
>For example if $regexp='123.45';
>$target =~ /$regexp/;
>would normally match on
>123.45
>123x45
>123g45 etc.
>
>I would like only 123.45
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Bill
>
Since you didn't qualify $target,
and $regexp is a constant:
$regexp = '\.';
is fastest.
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