[MA1985]

Hi All

Do we have in Perl something stronger then =~ in order to check equality of 2 strings inside arrays?

I did loop inside loop the first loop is running on the first array - for every cell in this array I check inside the secound array.
when I find match between cell from Array1 to cell from Array2 - I print something.
It works very good till I got bug that even if in the cells I got even part of the string of the other cell - it also give me "true" and do whatever the if statement ask instead of skip the if and continue to the else

example:

if($Array1[i] =~ $Array2[j]){
print "something...";
}else {
"do something else"
}

if in Array1[i] I have string LIKE
and in Array2[j] I have string IKE
the condition still gave me true although its false and should continue to the else.

Do you know about stronger equality between 2 strings in array?

Thank you very much for your help.

.
Moran

[FishMonger]

If you want to test if 2 strings are equal, then you should use the eq equality operator, not a regex.

if ($Array1[i] eq $Array2[j]) {
    print "something...";
}
else {
    print "something else"; 
}

[MA1985]

Originally Posted by FishMonger

If you want to test if 2 strings are equal, then you should use the eq equality operator, not a regex.

if ($Array1[i] eq $Array2[j]) {
    print "something...";
}
else {
    print "something else"; 
}

Thank you very much!!
It works!!