[perl]looking for specific text in a variable

How do I look for specific text in a variable?
Continuing from log parsing discussion.

Last question, then I shuddap.

if ($variable =~ /specific text/) {
    # are you too fucking lazy to read some books on Perl?
}

Given that its perl you are working with, I'm pretty sure you'll want to use regular expressions. Something like /s/text or something. Also I suck at regexp, and I hate it because it looks different wherever its implemented.

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Wow. /prog/ is fast today. What happened?

>>2
Yup. Not too lazy to google for it, though, and the method I ended up using was pretty much exactly like this. Stupid here decides to google something after posting here instead of before.

GO ME.

>Sol:
>>2 LISTEN TO THIS MAN

Read Perl Programming by Larry Wall and go away. They should have it at your library in the Computers section.

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Too far away from a library, no means to get to one, and I'm out of college. Ain't happening, I'm afraid.

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It's downloadable on the interwebs

>>5
We all got fired?

Your instructions suck, here's how you do it:

Searching literal strings in other string, somewhat equivalent to C strstr or strcasestr:

if($text = /\Q$search/) ...

OR

if($text = /\Q$search/i) ... # for case insensitive

OR

if(index($text,$search) != -1) ...

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