Regular expression for exact match of a string

if you have a the input password in a variable and you want to match exactly 123456 then anchors will help you:

/^123456$/

in perl the test for matching the password would be something like

print "MATCH_OK" if ($input_pass=~/^123456$/);

EDIT:

bart kiers is right tho, why don’t you use a strcmp() for this? every language has it in its own way

as a second thought, you may want to consider a safer authentication mechanism 🙂

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