--- "John W. Krahn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Derek B. Smith wrote:
> > All,
>
> Hello,
>
> > I am trying to run logic that will copy/delete 3
> > versions of log.\d+ files to their respective
> > directories. Because there are so many
> directories, I
> > have built a hash table instead of using a bunch
> of
> > "if else conditions" with reg exps. My problem is
> it
> > is not returning the words_num translation from
> the
> > print sub routine call words_to_num.
> >
> > BEGIN CODE
> >
> >
> > foreach my $log (@twoweekdir_contents) {
> > $NBlogs2[$i++] =
> > $log if ($log =~
> > /bpcd\/log|bpdbm\/log|bptm\/log.\d+/);
>
> Your pattern says match the string 'bpcd/log' OR
> 'bpdbm/log' OR 'bptm/log'
> followed by any character followed by one or more
> digits and the pattern can
> be located anywhere in the $log variable. Are you
> sure that you don't want
> digits after 'bpcd/log' or 'bpdbm/log'?
>
>
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No I do not want to do this....nice catch. It should
read /bpcd\/log|bpdbm\/log|bptm\/log\.\d+/);
so that I catch log and a period and number after the
period.
thank you
derek
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