[please don't top-post -- it makes the discussion difficult to follow] On Oct 17, Mandar Rahurkar said:
>On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan wrote: > >> On Oct 17, Mandar Rahurkar said: >> >> >Hi, >> > I am trying to write a regular expresssion which reads as : >> >from the list of following files generate a list which does not start >> >with 150d in the beginning: >> >> >@new= grep {/[^{no}]/} @list; >> >> First, you've got a character class [^...]. You don't want that. >> >> Second, you've got {no}, when you want $no. >> >> Third, you need the opposite of the regex (so use ! /.../). >> >> @new = grep { ! /^$no/ } @list; >> >> You might want to put a \Q before $no, to ensure that any regex characters >> in $no are seen as normal characters. >> >> @new = grep !/^\Q$no/, @list; > >thanks for your prompt reply...however this does not work.. >program does not generate any output... What program? Please show us the code you're (now) using. -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ ** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by Manning, in 2002 ** <stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course. [ I'm looking for programming work. If you like my work, let me know. ] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]