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Two strings refuse to match?

petreza
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Sep 10, 2010, 6:47 AM

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Two strings refuse to match?	Can't Post

Hello,

This never prints:

if ( $hash1->{'111'} =~ /$hash2->{'222'}/ ){ print "It matches"; }

Eventhough when I do this:

my @str1 = split ( //, $hash1->{'111'});
my @str2 = split ( //, $hash2->{'222'});

for (my $i=0; $i<=$#str2; $i++){
if ($str1[$i] eq $str2[$i]){
print "character # $i is the same.\n";
}else{
print "!!!!!!!!!!!! character # $i is NOT the same !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!";
}
}

all the individual characters match. I have a bunch of these strings inside tha hashes that do not match.

Basically, the string inside $hash2->{'xxx'} is a cut-off version of the full string inside $hash1->{'yyy'} yet they do not match.

Edit: code editted by shawnhcorey's suggestion below

(This post was edited by petreza on Sep 10, 2010, 12:13 PM)

shawnhcorey
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Sep 10, 2010, 10:43 AM

Post #2 of 5 (2763 views)

Re: [petreza] Two strings refuse to match? [In reply to]	Can't Post

Replace:

Code

if ( $hash1->{'111'} =~ /$hash2-{'222'}/ ){ print "It matches"; }

with

Code

if ( $hash1->{'111'} =~ /$hash2->{'222'}/ ){ print "It matches"; }

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petreza
Novice

Sep 10, 2010, 12:11 PM

Post #3 of 5 (2760 views)

Re: [shawnhcorey] Two strings refuse to match? [In reply to]	Can't Post

In Reply To

Replace:

Code

 if ( $hash1->{'111'} =~ /$hash2-{'222'}/ ){ print "It matches"; }

with

Code

 if ( $hash1->{'111'} =~ /$hash2->{'222'}/ ){ print "It matches"; }

I am sorry - that was just a typo when posting here on the forum. I do not have that error in my actual code. When the code that I have runs it matches 99% of the strings that I throw at it. Only a few did not match. I inspected the ones not matched visually as well as the character-by-character test above. Yet they do not match. It is really puzzling.

shawnhcorey
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Sep 10, 2010, 12:14 PM

Post #4 of 5 (2755 views)

Re: [petreza] Two strings refuse to match? [In reply to]	Can't Post

It's better to copy & paste the real code.

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rovf
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Nov 3, 2010, 3:03 AM

Post #5 of 5 (2500 views)

Re: [petreza] Two strings refuse to match? [In reply to]	Can't Post

Well, pattern matching, and doing equality on the fields, are certainly different operations, so without seeing the content of the pattern, I would not be surprised that the results are not equal.

Since you say that one string is a substring of the other, wouldn't be index() more appropriate than pattern matching in your case?

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