I could be wrong here as I am still pretty new to perl but couldn't you just do it like this if ($x =~ /$y/i)
Dylan -----Original Message----- From: SATAR VAFAPOOR [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: December 3, 2002 9:27 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Case Insensitive Hello all, I want to make comaprisons in an if statement without caring about upper or lower case eg $x='T'; $y='t' if($x eq $y). can the i that is used in regex be used here or is there another way. Thanks Sattar --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]