LPM: regexp question
Matt Cashner
sungo at brocksplace.com
Tue Dec 21 01:01:05 CST 1999
all righty then. what i'm trying to do is to determine if the words
"is" and "are" are one of the first five words in a sentence. the code
i'm using now looks like this: (yes, its ugly and newbie-ish)
my ($stu_foo,$stu_blah, at stu_search, at stu_refs,$stu_term);
$stu_term = $orig_Y;
@stu_search = ('is','are');
$theMsg =~ /(\w*)\s*(\w*)\s*(\w*)\s*(\w*)\s*(\w*).*?/;
@stu_refs = ($1,$2,$3,$4,$5);
foreach $stu_blah (@stu_refs) {
foreach $stu_foo (@stu_search) {
if ($stu_blah =~ /\b$stu_foo\b/ or $stu_blah =~ /\b$stu_term\b/) {
$theMsg = "<reply> $who: $theMsg";
goto OUT;
}
}
}
OUT:
anyway, is there a better way to do this? this seems awfully hackish to
me... thanks for your help all...
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Matt Cashner
sungo at earthling.net
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