On 4/19/05, angie ahl wrote:
> The following regex is failing strangely:
>
> my @tables = $content =~ m#\[table\](.*?)\[/table\]#g;
> foreach (@tables) {
> my $table = $_;
> if ($content =~ m#$table#) {print "yes old table is
> there!\n";}
> }
>
> @tables contains 2 items (correctly) but seaching for each item in
> $content does not match.
>
> How can it find 2 matches and then claim that each of them aren't there?
>
> Perl 5.8.6 Mac OS X 10.3.8
>
> Thanks
>
> bemused Angie
>
Metachars in the results perhaps? Have you tried dumping @tables using
Data::Dumper and looking at the results?
Try using quotemeta (http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/quotemeta.html):
my $table = quotemeta;
HTH,
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Offer Kaye
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