Re^2: Addional "year" matching functionality in word matching script

[bms9nmh]

Thanks for the response, I should mention that I'm a noob to perl and my original code came from copying from other scripts and help from others. The bits in the code that say = ...; is this what I would actually write in the script or do I need to put something else in the space. Sorry, I'm a bit lost! I usually use bash and started using perl recently!

[GotToBTru]

perlsyn and perlfunc will get you the definition of stuff you don't understand. perldebtut will get you started with the Perl debugger, which can be a really useful tool to learn how stuff works; you can try out commands interactively. Anything else, ask! We were all noobs once.

[Corion]

Sorry - yes, the ... parts are logic that I left out.

For finding the year within a title, you already have similar logic and it's not too hard to write code that finds things looking like a year within another string.

For determining the five-matching-words logic, you already have that logic in your script, you just need to assign the result of that logic to a variable before doing further checks like available or matching years.