This is a post from me in the Win32 support forum about this same matter.
http://www.everquestserver.com/forum...er=asc&start=0

A small but usefull tip for those that DON'T know perl.

The i near the end of the if ($text=~/hail/i); example means it is case insensitive.

Not knowing ANY perl, it actually took me a while to find out what it was for. Although I already suspected...[/i]

And of course the best place to start to learn perl is the documentation that came with perl :)