regexp question

[kidd]

Hello monks...

Yesterday you helped me with some problem and I was able to solve it, thanks.

Now I have a question:
Is there a way to check if a line has a word of an array(that has a different number of words) using regexp?...

Some example:

my @query = ('red', 'blue', 'white');

my $line = "That is a blue wall";

My goal is to check trough the @query ans see if any word is in $line. Considering that I will not know the values in @query.

At the moment Im using a foreach() loop, that Im hoping to kill with a one liner:

foreach my $query(@query){
  next if $query eq '';
        print "I found: $query" if $line =~ /\Q$query/;
     }

Thanks...

[Abigail-II]

    {
        local $" = "|";
        $line =~ /@{[map {quotemeta} @query]}/;
    }

[kidd]

Thanks...it worked grrreat... :-)

Just one more thing...how could I check that all the words in the array are in the line?

Thanks

[Abigail-II]

By not being smart and wanting it in a single regexp. Use your foreach loop and a counter. Increment the counter for each match found, and compare after the loop whether the counter equals the size of the array. Or just bail out whenever there isn't a match, depending a bit on what exactly you want to do.

Abigail