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> hi, i have the follwing strings:
>
>
> /tmp/test/.test.txt
> /tmp/test/hallo.txt
> /tmp/test/xyz/abc.txt
> /var/log/ksy/123.log
>
>
> now i need a regex that matches all lines but the one that contains a
> filename starting with a point. like ".test.txt". how can i do that?
>
> this is what i have:
>
> '\.(?!tgz)[^.]*$' this matches everything, but tgz at the end of a
> line, so
>
> '(?!\.)[^.]*$' should do the job, but it doesnt:(....
The following will help. It first generatest the file's basename in $1 by
capturing the string of all trailing characters which aren't '/', and then
checks to ensure
that that basename doesn't start with a dot..
HTH,
Rob
while (<DATA>) {
chomp;
if ( m<([^/]*)$> and $1 =~ /^[^.]/ ) {
print $_, "\n";
}
}
__DATA__
/tmp/test/.test.txt
/tmp/test/hallo.txt
/tmp/test/xyz/abc.txt
/var/log/ksy/123.log
OUTPUT
/tmp/test/hallo.txt
/tmp/test/xyz/abc.txt
/var/log/ksy/123.log
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