From: Mmcolli00 Mom <mmc_collins@...>
Date: 2009-01-21T11:11:06+09:00
Subject: Re: if statement not working with Hash object


>> So if my Date1 has any value after it, I will have to have a string
>> wildcard, correct? What are you all using for wildcards? Thanks, MC
> 
> I don't know what you mean.

Well what I meant was that I don't understand how to check if a line in 
the text file contains at least 'Date1'.

So anytime it the line has at least contains Date1, then it should be 
ignored in my code. I thought that I could use the regular expression 
such as:

if word != /Date1/

however, I can't use the reg ex and don't know how to do that with a 
string. I was thinking there is a wild card so that I could use 
something like: if word !~ "Date1*" with '*' being any value after 
Date1.

Thanks, MC
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