At 01:00 11.26.2001 -0500, Jim Conner wrote:
>At 15:25 11.26.2001 +1030, Daniel Falkenberg wrote:
>>Hey all,
>>
>>Just a simple question could some one give me a clue as to what the
>>folling regex will match...
>>
>>$user = "daniel";
>>
>>if ( $test =~ /^$user/ ) {
>>        print "Hello world!\n";
>>}
>
>Hrm.  The regex is comparing a variable called $test (in this example 
>$test does not exist) to the word "daniel *" as long as "daniel" is the 
>beginning of the string.  Therefore, it will match only "daniel" and 
>anything else in the string as long as daniel is the first word with no 
>whitespace or anything else b


I should note that I didn't make this very clear but what Sidharth said 
holds true.

>efore it.  Once that is done it will print "Hello world\n".
>
>>Will it match only daniel or will it match dan || danni and so on?
>>
>>Cheers,
>>
>>Dan
>>
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