Thank you all for your help. Andy
-----Original Message----- From: Maurice Reeves [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 1:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Help with Perl if ($letter =~ m/[A-L]/) uses a regex which will give you what you want. >From: "Nguyen, Andy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Help with Perl >Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 14:16:37 -0500 >Hi List, > >I am new to perl and looking for a shortcut way of doing this. > ># $letter could be any letter from A to L. >if ( $letter eq "A" || $letter "B" || $letter "C" || $letter eq "D" >............ || $letter eq "L" ) >{ > do something >} > >I really don't want to repeat $letter for every letter (B-L). > >In ksh Shell, I can do: > >if [[ $letter = @(A|B|B|C|D|.......|L) ]] >then > do something >fi > > Any help will be appreciated. > >Thanks >Andy > >-- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
