Help - String manipulation/Conditons

I need to check for the existence of a specific string at the beginning of a variable and based upone its existence/absence perform a conditional branch. The line I am attepting to use is as follows -

if ($zip =~ /^191*/)

testing for the characters 191 at the beginning of the $zip variable. Is this code correct or am I having a major brain fart here? Any feedback is mucho appreciated.

K

this code is correct, kinda...

if you are testing for the character * you need to escape it by doing * .

but if you are using it to say zero or more characters after the 191, then you can either use .* or nothing... it should work the same.

All you have to do is:
if ($zip =~ /^191/) {
# true
} else {
# false
}

[Update] I also just realized that your pattern is wrong because all numbers starting with "19" would be flagged as OK. Try my solution above.

[This message has been edited by Anonym0us (edited December 16, 2000).]