Can't get variable regex to match??? This should be easy

[sapatos]

Hi,

I've got a loop that is searching an array for a match. When I hardcode the search pattern it works great but when I pass the search pattern in as a variable it doesn't find anything. Can someone advise?

Code is:

foreach my $search (@searchStrings) {


print "string: $search\n";
@holder = grep(!m/$search/,@mainFile);
print "size stripped: " . @holder . "\n";
print "size orig: " . @mainFile . "\n";

}

if I replace the grep line with:

@holder = grep(!m/VT02382933451687/,@mainFile);

it matches?

thanks

 

[stevexff]

It really depends on what you have in @searchStrings. Do you have trailing newlines perhaps? Try chomping @searchStrings before the loop maybe?

Steve

[small]"Every program can be reduced by one instruction, and every program has at least one bug. Therefore, any program can be reduced to one instruction which doesn't work." (Object:erlDesignPatterns)[/small]

 

[sapatos]

hi steve,

thanks for that. I actually spotted that just after i hit send in the forum. typical ;(