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# 1  
Old 03-11-2010
Comma in regular expression
Hi,

I need to check if string contains comma...
Wrote like ~ m/\,/ but no luck...

Also taken comma in variable and checked with ~ m/($comma)/ but this also doesn't help....

Please advise
# 2  
Old 03-11-2010
Code:
my $var;
while(1)
{
$var=<>;
if($var=~/,/)
{
    print $var;
    last;
}
}

# 3  
Old 03-16-2010
Hi , darshakraut your method also should work if your string is valid.

Try this,
Code:
if($string=~m/,/)

# 4  
Old 03-16-2010
MySQL
see the following regular expression.

Code:
if ( $val =~ m/[,]/)

[or]
Code:
if ( $val =~ m%,%)

you can change the delimiter instead of "/" like %, #, !, | etc.,
Last edited by ungalnanban; 03-16-2010 at 08:53 AM..
# 5  
Old 03-16-2010
Hammer & Screwdriver
what about with a grep
if
Code:
sample="hello,fool"

then
Code:
echo "$sample" | grep -c ","

returns 1
while
Code:
sample1="not here"
echo "$sample1" | grep -c ","

returns 0

and the result could be put to a variable.
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