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>I am not an advanced perl programmer and I do not have my books with me. I
>want to determine if a string is within a string and to not process the string
>if the string is found. Could someone please provide a simple sample.
>
>From "perldoc -f index" :
index STR,SUBSTR,POSITION
index STR,SUBSTR
The index function searches for one string within another, but
without the wildcard-like behavior of a full regular-expression
pattern match. It returns the position of the first occurrence
of SUBSTR in STR at or after POSITION. If POSITION is omitted,
starts searching from the beginning of the string. The return
value is based at 0 (or whatever you've set the $[ variable
to--but don't do that). If the substring is not found, returns
one less than the base, ordinarily "-1".
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