SPUG: Help with this error
Tim Maher
tim at consultix-inc.com
Thu Oct 7 16:05:37 CDT 2004
On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 01:29:37PM -0700, Luis Medrano wrote:
> list,
>
> This how it works
> $temp is the line of the file I'm processing and when they
> fines the line what contains this "*.jpg". it brakes.
>
> $temp=$file[5221]; ## this contains *.jpg
> if ($linea=~m/$temp/){ ## and here is where it brakes.
> Luis
You need to "quote" the metacharacters that result from the
expansion of $temp, so they are interpreted as literals when
doing the match against $linea; \Q \E are for this:
if ($linea=~m/\Q$temp\E/){ ## and here is where it brakes.
But I don't understand what you're doing. How could "*.jpg" ever
match a line number, which is what you say is in $linea?
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