Steven&Alison Chua wrote:
>
> Thanks Tom and James for your help.
>
> Sorry I forgot to mention that the filename has the
filename "path" in it.
> Hence the caret "^" wouldn;t work.
> Eg of filename:"C:\ba\log\ULOG.20010101"
>
> I did have a look at the perlre manpage. Tried the
options but I could'nt
> get it to work.
Double up on your \'s to represent a single \.
/\\ulog\./
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