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> "Boon Chong Ang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> ismsg03.altera.priv.altera.com...
> Hi,
> Just say i have a variable being assigned as follow,
>
> $a = abc/edf/a
>
> i want it to search from another file for the file that contains
> exactly the same words, what i do is to modify the variable a become
> $a = abc\/edf\/a and then
> print if /$a/; but it failed
> even if i tried print if "/$a/"; it also failed. Can anyone point out
> my mistake or show me the correct way to do this?
>
>
I'm not sure what your problem is here. Even without the escape characters
this works fine. Can you tell us more of what you're doing, and why you
think
it doesn't work?
Rob
use strict;
use warnings;
my $a = 'abc/edf/a';
while (<DATA>) {
print if /$a/;
}
__DATA__
abc/edf/a
acb/ecf/a
ffabc/edf/a
dsa/bc/edf/a
abc/edf/agg
OUTPUT
abc/edf/a
ffabc/edf/a
abc/edf/agg
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