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; -- 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]