Thank you for pointing me in the right direction. That did work.
Ahmer -----Original Message----- From: BOLCATO CHRIS (esm1cmb) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 21, 2004 10:43 AM To: Khan, Ahmer H; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Using regular expression as a variable. Hello, >Hi, >I'm having a problem where somehow a regexp does not work and the >program results in an error >when the regexp is called using a variable. >Here is my code. >1 $filename = 'This is a directory\file\sub.txt'; >2 $regex = '\\(\w+\.\w+)$'; >3 if ($filename =~ /$regex/) >4 {print $1;} else >5 {print "nothing\n";} Use the operator qr{string} instead of single quotes. The perlop man page explains the cause for this using q{string} or 'string'. >The following error appears when I run the above. >"Unmatched ) before HERE mark in regex m/\(\w+\.\w+) << HERE $/ at regexp.pl line 3." Check your response you are losing a backslash. Chris -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
