$key = "INITIAL.LASTNAME,INITIAL2.LASTNAME2,INITIAL3.LASTNAME3";
$key2 = "INITIAL.LASTNAME,INITIAL2.LASTNAME2,.";
if ($key =~ m/$key2/){
print " [just another perl hacker] \n";
}
i'm cycling through two hash tables
and trying to get the exact match but
it seems that i have a less than perfect
understanding of pattern matching
i've got "the perl cookbook" here with me,
so if i find the answer before this is taken
care of i'll post a reply to myself
but i expected that the above statement would
evaluate to FALSE
(note, i'm not actually making an attempt at a JAPH
but i thought it was a funny replacement for
Execute Block ;)