Il giorno lun, 23/04/2007 alle 12.36 +0100, Matt Davey ha scritto: > echo "aa bb cc dd" | perl -pe 'exit(!(/(?=.*\bbb\b)(?=.*\bdd\b)/));' > && echo found Ok, Work! last question ... (and many thanks if you have a little time to spend for me) if I want convert this format into if/else statement.... like this: $str="aa bb cc dd" if ($str =~ /.*(\bb|dd)\b/i) { print "***\nYes, Match!\n***\n"; } else { print "Non match!\n"; } It's possible? .. (I am not a perl guru, then I do not how to convert the previous format in this newer) .... Thanks. -- Dario Lesca <d.lesca@xxxxxxxxxx>