index function problem

[shadbo]

I am a perl newbie and I seem to be getting incorrect results from the
index function.

I have a var $string_to_find, which has a value of 'paris'. The string
I am searching has a 'paris' in there and 'pari' I want to extract the
position of 'paris' and not 'pari'. The code below seems to be finding
the position of the first one (pari), which i don't need.
Is it possible to combine regex with the index funtion so it only
searches for 'paris'?

$string_position = index($line,$string_to_find)

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

 

[Paul Lalli]

I am a perl newbie and I seem to be getting incorrect results from the
index function.

I have a var $string_to_find, which has a value of 'paris'. The string
I am searching has a 'paris' in there and 'pari' I want to extract the
position of 'paris' and not 'pari'. The code below seems to be finding
the position of the first one (pari), which i don't need.
Is it possible to combine regex with the index funtion so it only
searches for 'paris'?

$string_position = index($line,$string_to_find)

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

First suggestion would be to post your code so we can figure out what
you're doing wrong. . . .

Paul Lalli

 

[Chris Mattern]

First suggestion would be to post your code so we can figure out what
you're doing wrong. . . .

Five will get you ten he's using chop() instead of chomp()
on $string_to_find--and $string_to_find didn't have a \n
at the end.

Chris Mattern

 

[Tad McClellan]

The code below seems to be finding
the position of the first one (pari), which i don't need.

$string_position = index($line,$string_to_find)

index() will find the first one.

rindex() will find the last one.