Mathew schreef:
> Dr.Ruud wrote:
>> Thomas Bätzler schreef:
>>
>>> [ !/^\.$|^\.\.$/ and !/^\.\.?$/ ]
>>> I'm assuming that this regex would be faster, too, since it
>>> does not contain an alternation.
>>
>> That is hard to say without actual benchmarking: the regex-optimizer
>> gets better with every new version of perl.
>>
>
> But wouldn't that only look for the parent director file? Isn't it
> looking for a file with exactly two dots?
No, "?" means "{0,1}", see `perldoc perlre`.
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