Thanks Jeff . I had tried $password eq /bob/ but your way works just fine.
Now for security reasons I want to check the variable to only alphanumeric charecters
a-z A-Z 0-9 and the underscore _
I'm using the email address are a beginning password therefore....
code below
$password=~s/@/\_/g; ##removes"@"
$password=~s/\./\_/g; ##removes"."
##?????????
$password=~s/[^a-z^A-Z^0-9]/\-/g; ##check for a-z, A-Z, 1-0 ???????
##????????
is there a better way?
I have been pouring iover perl books all day and this is the stumper (and the last
question)
thanks in advance
Lou
----- Original Message -----
From: Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
To: Luinrandir Hernsen
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2002 10:09 PM
Subject: Re: help!!!trying to match password
On Jan 19, Luinrandir Hernson said:
>Just how do I match the input exactly
>bob
>to just
>bob
Use 'eq'.
if ($password eq 'bob') { ... }
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