On Mon, 2004-04-26 at 10:29, Jon Jensen 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? > > Something like this should work: > > /[^\.]*/ >
In most programs, this will match every string, as every string has 0 or more non-period characters in it. By changing it to /^[^.]*$/ you would match the empty string and all other strings in which there are 0 or more non-period characters. Casey P.S. This post delay on the list is something else.
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