Chuck Crisler wrote: > My immediate problem was checking a specific position in a string for a > specific value (if the char in the first position == '#', skip the > record). substr works OK in that case. However, I also want to learn > more and it seems regex is a better and more powerful answer.
The archives are full of regex tricks. Learn how to search the archives by searching for Uri's name. fwiw, search "uri guttman" in google as well, if you really want to learn Perl. A good place to reference regex is [1]. Steve [1]: http://perldoc.perl.org/perlretut.html
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