so don't use the m/
and use a \b on both sides of "bob" in this case...
I will research this further to understand.
is there a name for this situation??? \b
thanks..lou
----- Original Message -----
From: Leon
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2002 2:31 PM
Subject: Re: help!!!trying to match password
Like what Jeff says, use eq would be a better option.
You may wish to know that "$password =~m/bob/" matches any of these :-
anybob bobby anybobbie ... i.e so long as it sees a bob, it match. If you
wish to match only bob and not bobby or abobby, then you may have to use
border like this ~/\bbob\b/
---- end of msg ----
----- Original Message -----
From: "Luinrandir Hernson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2002 6:41 PM
Subject: help!!!trying to match password
I have managed to get this far.
I've stripped down
read(STDIN,$buffer,$ENV{'CONTENT_LENGTH'});
to the actual input, in this case
bob
and it works.... but so does bob123 , bobbies and bobs_a_bum etc...
Just how do I match the input exactly
bob
to just
bob
???????
thanks in advance
code below
if ($password =~m/bob/)
{
wholesale()
}
else
{
badpassword()
}
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