Re: Can I ask a quick stupid question?

[Chris Spurgeon <ces@www.whyy.org>]

Thanks!

Yeah, I know about '+' being a special character for regular expressions,
but I kept trying to get around it...I was too brain-fried to remember to
just use index. Thanks!


On Tue, 22 Feb 2000 mjd-perl-pm@plover.com wrote:

> 
> > ... what I'm trying to do here is search for a series of strings, where
> > the strings happen to end with the characters "+++".  But perl is picking
> > up those final characters in $alteredsearcher and it's seeing them as a
> > syntax error instead of just three characters. What am I missing here?
> 
> `+' is special in a regular expression.  It means to repeat the
> preceding item one or more times.  X+++  doesn't make sense, since
> you're asking to repeat X one or more times, repeated one or more
> times, repeated one or more times.
> 
> Probably the simplest thing to do is to use the `index' function
> instead of a regex.  Instead of:
> 
> >         if ($teststring =~ /$alteredsearcher/) {
> 
> use
> 
> >         if (index($teststring, $alteredsearcher) >= 0) {
> 
> 
> The whole point of regexes is that they have these magical characters
> like + and * and . that do special things; if you don't want those
> special behaviors, and you just want to see if one string is in
> another, `index' is the function to use.
> 
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