cwilson@NISC.SRI.COM (Chan Wilson [Animal]) (10/06/90)
Any way to do string comparisions that ignore case gracefully? The
only solution I can think of at the moment involves using some
temporary variables... ick. Howbout something like '$foo eqi $bar' ?
--Chan
Chan Wilson
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"If I want to be a surfer this month, I bloody well will be."lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) (10/06/90)
In article <21932@fs2.NISC.SRI.COM> cwilson@NISC.SRI.COM (Chan Wilson [Animal]) writes:
:
: Any way to do string comparisions that ignore case gracefully? The
: only solution I can think of at the moment involves using some
: temporary variables... ick. Howbout something like '$foo eqi $bar' ?
If your $bar contains only alpha characters, you can just say
$foo =~ /^$bar$/i;
Larry