Jorge, Expanding on Karl's answer (and somewhat labouring his point) consider these examples:
$a =~ /Jorge/ $a =~ /^Jorge/ $a =~ /Jorge$/ $a =~ /^Jorge$/ This shows that regex providing four different capabilities: - detect "Jorge" anywhere in the string - detect "Jorge" at the start of a string (by adding ^) - detect "Jorge" at the end of a string (by adding $) - detect that the string is exactly "Jorge" (both ^ and $) Replace "Jorge" with your pattern, and the result is the same. Cheers, Claude. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
