On 02/10/2013 20:44, Peter Holsberg wrote:
Shawn H Corey has written on 10/2/2013 2:29 PM:
my @files = grep { /^\d{6}\.htm$/i } glob( '*.htm' );
Well, I'm more of a beginner than I thought I was!
The /i to grep is to ignore case?
Why are you globbing *.htm?
Hi Peter
All that Shawn has shown you is how to get the list of files; although
not saying so seems very unhelpful to me.
Yes, the /i modifier on any regex makes it ignore the case of the text
it matches.
glob( '*.htm' )
returns a list of the files in the files in the current directory that
end with `.htm`, while
grep { /^\d{6}\.htm$/i }
filters that list to include only those that begin with six decimal digits.
When you say
The file's name is \d{6}.htm
do you mean that literal name, or do you want to include *.htm files
that start with six decimal digits? Jim Gibson has assumed the former,
while Shawn, the latter.
If you are modifying just a single file, then I would choose a text
editor to do the job, not Perl or any other language.
If you clarify your requirement then I will gladly help, but it would go
down much better if you showed the work you had done already.
Rob
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