On Feb 15, terri harrison said: >Name: Happy, Species: Cat, Gender: Male >Name: Peanut, Species: Hamster, Gender: Female > >if ($names{$_} =~ /\s*Gender:\s*$gen\s*/i) { >if ($names{$_} =~ /\s*Species:\s*$sp\s*/i) { > >WORK > >why doesn't >if ($names{$_} =~ /\s*Name:\s*$pn\s*/i) {
I can't tell without some data. What of $gen, $sp, and $pn? -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ ** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by Manning, in 2002 ** <stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course. [ I'm looking for programming work. If you like my work, let me know. ] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]