Re^3: grep function does not recognize string


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Re^3: grep function does not recognize string

by choroba (Prior)

on May 07, 2012 at 12:41 UTC ( #969253=note: print w/ replies, xml )

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Use <readmore> tags for long portions of code or data.

The reason is that you do not anchor your regex with ^, but you test the result of grep to be == 1. But for 4285, the result is == 2, because 4285 is contained in both 4285 and 24285.

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Re^4: grep function does not recognize string by korak (Initiate) on May 08, 2012 at 07:09 UTC
Yes!!! Of course.... Thanks a lot, I did not think of that! Now it works perfect!	[reply]

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