On 08/04/2012 12:00, Somu wrote:
Hello everyone... Thanks for the previous replies. I'm really improving! A new problem..Check if the word begins with un or in and has exactly 5 letters. $word =~ '^(un|in).{3}$' Check if the word begins with un or in or non and has more than 5 letters. $word =~ '^(un|in).{3}.+$' What do i do about the words starting with "non" because it has one more letter than un or in
Hi Somu You should use (?:...) instead of just (...) as the latter wastefully captures substrings that you are not using. To match the string you describe you require /^(?:un.|in.|non)...+/ Rob -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
