how to compare with a word only in a sentence?

[poolboi]

hi all,

if i got a string say

i feel like going to swim today

if i have input say "swim"

and i wanna compare it with the sentence above, it will return true and go on to the rest of the program

cos normally we do this:

if ( swim eq sentence)

it will be true only if it matches the whole sentence so now i just it to return true as long as the sentence has the word swim and carry on with the program

any way in perl we can do this?

[KevinADC]

use a regexp:

if ($foo =~ /pattern/) {
   do something;
}

where $foo is the sentence and pattern is "swim". There are plenty of online resources to guide you with learning regular expressions.

[poolboi]

use a regexp:

if ($foo =~ /pattern/) {
   do something;
}

where $foo is the sentence and pattern is "swim". There are plenty of online resources to guide you with learning regular expressions.

thanks a lot once again :)