I'm no regexp guru, but I think something like the following would work:
"^[^.]$"
I believe, since the "." is inside the character class, it doesn't have the "match any character" special meaning. If I'm wrong, you'd have to escape it with a "\". The only problem is that this regexp will match non-printing characters as well. Perhaps you'd be better off to explicitly declare the characters you want to allow in the file name, something like this:
"^[-a-zA-Z0-9_]$"
Again, I'm not a regexp guru, so there are probably some bugs in these, but maybe it'll get you started on the right track.
Have fun,
Lloyd Brown
Ryan Bowman wrote:
I need a regular expression that will only match filenames with NO periods in them. My attempts so far don't seem to work at all, in the least. Can someone give me a hint, please?
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