Re: Ok brain fart here...

[GoodleafJ]

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In what way is it not working?

I may be making the same mistake as you. It looks good to me, excepting
that there's no prompt to tell someone to type in a string. So if it ran
as-is, it would appear to be hanging there, when it's just waiting for
input.

-John



                                                                                       
                            
                    Richie Crews                                                       
                            
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Ok I am beating my head why this is not working...

$fname = <STDIN>;
chomp $fname;
$fletter = substr($fname,0,1);
# now we have the first letter of the first name
if ( $fletter =~ /[a-f]/i) {
            print "First letter is a-f\n";
}


You get the picture I would have other if's based on the first letter
however my regex is not working any idea I just need another prospective on
it.

Richie Crews
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