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Okay. What am I missing here?

Dec 15, 1999, 3:56 PM
Pasha1
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Dec 15, 1999, 3:56 PM
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Okay. What am I missing here?
How come this doesn't work?
Code:
if ($results =~ "?")
{
print "question mark";
}

And this doesn't work either:
Code:
if ($results =~ "\?")
{
print "question mark";
}

Any suggestions?

Thanks!




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Dec 15, 1999, 5:31 PM
Mark Badolato
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Dec 15, 1999, 5:31 PM
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Because quotes are not acceptable as delimiters in pattern matching. Plus, you do need to escape the ? since it has meaning in regex's.

This will work:

if ($results =~ /\?/) {
print "question mark";
}

--mark


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