Check if variable contains certain data

[roywills]

I am trying to determine if a varaible is defined and if it also certain data. I am using the defined function to test if it is set, but am having trouble finding a way to test if it contains a certain word anywhere in te variable.

Can anyone offer any insight on this?

 

[travs69]

if ($var =~/whatever/) {

Do blah
}

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Travis - Those who say it cannot be done are usually interrupted by someone else doing it; Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions;

 

[stevexff]

Note that /whatever/ doesn't have to be a literal, it can be a pattern, too. But entire books have been written on regular expressions...

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]

 

[KevinADC]

roywils,

lets see what you have tried so far.

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