[Chicago-talk] Can anyone help with a regex?

[Shlomi Fish]

Hi Richard,

On Wed, 03 Apr 2024 13:33:04 -0400
"Richard Reina" <richard at rushlogistics.com> wrote:

> I want to be able to find the sting 'ACCT/ID Number(s):' 
> 
> Here's what I've tried so far.
> 
> 
> my $line = "ACCT/ID Number(s): 1334356";
> my $d = "ACCT/ID Number(s):";
> 
> 
> if ($line =~ /\b$d(\s|$)/) {
> 
>     print "Found $d in line\n";
> 
> }
> 

Please see
https://perl-begin.org/FAQs/freenode-perl/#How_can_I_match_a_string_variable_inside_a_regex.3F
and https://perl-begin.org/topics/security/code-markup-injection/ and quotemeta
and \Q … \E .

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