Re: Matching at least $x words out of @words
"A. Pagaltzis" <[email protected]>
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* Sven Neuhaus <[email protected]> [2005-05-09 10:35]: > @a = $x =~ /word1|word2|word3/g; > $count = scalar @a; The problem with this and all the grep solutions is that you don’t know whether you matched the same alternate multiple times, or matched different alternates. You don’t know whether the result is "2" because the string was "word1word1" (which should be rejected) or "word1word2" (which we want to accept). Regards, -- #Aristotle *AUTOLOAD=*_=sub{s/(.*)::(.*)/print$2,(",$\/"," ")[defined wantarray]/e;$1}; &Just->another->Perl->hacker;