Given a query, I would like to check if this contains a given substring (can contain more than one word) . But I don't want exhaustive search, because this substring can only start a fresh word.
Any perl standard libraries for this, so that I get something efficient and don't have to reinvent the wheel?
Thanks,
This sounds like the perfect job for regular expressions:
if($string =~ m/your substring/) {
say "substring found";
} else {
say "nothing found";
}