Bryan R Harris wrote:
> I can usually figure out regexes, and this one seems simple, but it
> still eludes me--
>
> I'm looking for a regex (or a couple of regexes) to do the following:
>
> blahblah{ab,abcd}blah --> blahblah(ab|abcd)blah
> blahblah{a,b,c}blah --> blahblah(a|b|c)blah
Well, you can do
tr/{},/()|/
I don't know if that's robust enough for what you're doing...
>
> If it's not obvious I'm trying to glob-select files like the tcsh
> would. I've got the rest, this is the last part...
Doesn't File::Glob have the ability to do this already?
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