On 1 Oct 2002, Sebastien J. Gross wrote:
> is there something like regexp- lookups that matches a string against
> a regexp stored into a file / dbm or sql table?
You can certainly look up a regex and use it in a "matches" test, e.g.
if xxxx matches "${lookup....." ...
but I'm guessing that that isn't actually what you want. There isn't a
facility that provides "if this string matches any regex stored in this
file". If you are getting that complicated, you probably need embedded
Perl.
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