On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 09:25:53PM -0000, Stout, Joel R wrote:
>
> I want to get the file names of all "EDI" files from a certain directory. I
> do not want "ENT" (or encrypted) file names.
>
> Example:
>
> The directory contains:
> a001.edi
> a002.edi
> a003.edi.ent
> a004.EDI
>
> After getting the file name in $_ I did the following match:
>
> if (/edi\b/i) { # thinking I would match file names 1, 2, and 4. Instead I
> matched on all. Wasn't \b supposed to help me out here? Or does Perl
> consider "." in this case a word boundary? Any help much appreciated.
\b matches any transition from \w to \W or vice versa. \w is any
alphanumeric character plus "_", usually something like [A-Za-z0-9_],
and \W is its complement. How about using pattern "/edi$/" ?
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