RE: regex
[email protected] (Claude Brown via beginners) Mon, 22 Jan 2024 21:49:50 +0000
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Jorge, Expanding on Karl's answer (and somewhat labouring his point) consider these examples: $a =~ /Jorge/ $a =~ /^Jorge/ $a =~ /Jorge$/ $a =~ /^Jorge$/ This shows that regex providing four different capabilities: - detect "Jorge" anywhere in the string - detect "Jorge" at the start of a string (by adding ^) - detect "Jorge" at the end of a string (by adding $) - detect that the string is exactly "Jorge" (both ^ and $) Replace "Jorge" with your pattern, and the result is the same. Cheers, Claude.