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I want to use curl to view the source of a page and if that source contains a word that matches the string then it will execute a print. How would I do a if $string contains?
In VB it would be like.
dim string1 as string = "1" If string1.contains("1") Then Code here... End If Something similar to that but in Perl.
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The built in Perl operator =~ is used to determine if a string contains a string, like this. The !~ operator is used to determine if a string does not contains a string, like this. Often, variables are used instead of strings. Let's say you want to check if $foo contains two (or more) letters.
m operator in Perl is used to match a pattern within the given text. The string passed to m operator can be enclosed within any character which will be used as a delimiter to regular expressions.
9.3. The Binding Operator, =~ Matching against $_ is merely the default; the binding operator (=~) tells Perl to match the pattern on the right against the string on the left, instead of matching against $_.
If you just need to search for one string within another, use the index function (or rindex if you want to start scanning from the end of the string):
if (index($string, $substring) != -1) { print "'$string' contains '$substring'\n"; } To search a string for a pattern match, use the match operator m//:
if ($string =~ m/pattern/) { # the initial m is optional if "/" is the delimiter print "'$string' matches the pattern\n"; } 
if ($string =~ m/something/) { # Do work } Where something is a regular expression.
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