I broke it with brackets, parenthetically speaking. Thanks all - simple mind making a simple mistake.
-----Original Message----- From: Peter Eisengrein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 21, 2005 5:05 PM To: 'Perl-Win32-Users Mailing List (E-mail)' Subject: RE: regex confusion... sorry about that. a bit too quick on the trigger finger. I have the following: @files = grep { /^ccs_[cas|pri|atsm]/ && -f "$dir/$_" } readdir(DIR); There are other files in $dir that start with ccs but I only want ccs_cas ccs_pri or ccs_atsm but for some reason it seems to also match a filename that starts with ccs_trsum. What am I doing wrong? -----Original Message----- From: Peter Eisengrein Sent: Monday, February 21, 2005 5:02 PM To: Perl-Win32-Users Mailing List (E-mail) Subject: regex confusion... Hey gang... having a bit of a regex conundrum. I have the following statement: Message transport security by GatewayDefender 5:05:28 PM ET - 2/21/2005 _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
