thanks for your prompt reply...however this does not work.. program does not generate any output...
-Mandar 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; > > -- > 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] > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]