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    John E is offline Elite Member Power Poster
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    Testing a string for a substring

    I understand that if I have a string in perl called "my_str" and it happens to be "Tuesday" I can test it like this:-

    Code:
    if ($my_str eq Tuesday) {
    #  do something here, because it's Tuesday !
    }
    But suppose I want to test for the substring "day" - so that "daytime", "Monday", "Tuesday", "Saturday" etc would all would all provide a positive match - how can I achieve that with perl


    [Footnote...] I discovered a way to achieve this using the index statement - e.g.

    Code:
    if (-1 != index($my_str, "day")) {
    #  do something
    }
    but I assume that'll probably be case sensitive. Case sensitivity isn't necessarily undesirable but I just wondered if there's any other function available that's more elegant / more suited to string searches?
    Last edited by John E; September 28th, 2013 at 11:48 AM.
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    Re: Testing a string for a substring

    Rather than use index, you can just use a case insensitive regular expression match.

    Code:
    if ($string =~/findme/i) {
      ...
    }
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