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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Perl: Regex, string matching Post 302487365 by Klashxx on Wednesday 12th of January 2011 07:50:50 AM
Old 01-12-2011
Ok , try something like this:

Code:
$str = "[latency][info] mpgw(BLUESOAPFramework): trans(24578291)[152.32.174.110]:Latency: 0 14 0 13 14 13 0 178 183 178 183 184 183 178 13 14 ";

$userInput = "[latency][info] mpgw(BLUESOAPFramework";

$userInput =~ s/(\(|\)|\[|\])/\\\1/g;

print "trans usrInput: $userInput\n";

if ( $str =~ m/$userInput/ ) {
   print $str."\n";
   }

 

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