[Chicago-talk] Using a hash in a regex

[Andy Lester]

On Jul 13, 2006, at 4:17 PM, Jonathan Rockway wrote:

> I'm confused as to what the "two-argument" form of m// is.  Am I  
> missing
> something?
>
>> No, you have to loop manually.
>>
>> for my $key ( keys %h ) {
>>      if ( m/$s/$key/ ) {
>>           $n = $h{$key};

ooops I meant   $s =~ /$key/

The other thing is that if you're not using regex characters, Jay,  
then use index() instead of the regex.  If you're searching for the  
string "income" then don't go thru a regex to do it.

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