In a message dated 7/23/2006 9:39:34 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am a beginner in perl and am having a dickens of a time trying to
identify
> this pattern in messages. [URL
>
> Here is what I have:
>
> if ($FORM{'message} =~ /\[URL/ig) {
> #do something;
> }
>
> Where $FORM('message') is a messaage that includes many lines and
> [url=http://www.mywebspace.com[/url]. But this doesn't result in true
even though I
> know the message contains the string [url. Can anyone tell me what could
be the
> problem? Or perhaps a better way to identify a messages with the [url
> anywhere in it. Thanks for any help.
>
>
>
>
works for me!
I assume missing ' is just a typo else you would get compile error
[EMAIL PROTECTED] re]$ cat url.pl
#! /usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
my %FORM;
$FORM{'message'} = "
Where \$FORM('message') is a messaage that includes many lines and
[url=http://www.mywebspace.com[/url]. But this doesn't result in true
even though I
know the message contains the string [url. Can anyone tell me what
could be the
problem? Or perhaps a better way to identify a messages with the [url
anywhere in it. Thanks for any help.";
This works as long as the escaped bracket is not included. As soon as I
include the \[ it no longer works? No longer returns true. There has to be an
answer to this? I don't get it? Could it be attempting to match the \ as well?
