Mandar Rahurkar wrote: > Hi, > thanks to everyone for replying however I think i failed to define the > problem accurately : > > i have files assigned to @files variable : > > 2168a5_vow_band_1.fea > 169b2_vow_band_1.fea > 2168d6_vow_band_1.fea > 2168d5_vow_band_1.fea > 169g3_vow_band_1.fea > neutral.txt > > And i want the files say for eg suffix d and 1 and with extension fea.The > thing is if i try to match d all will get matched for obvious reason. > > basically I wanna generate the same output as of the following command on > shell prompt : > ls ???[g][^1] *.fea > ** will generate all files whose 4th char is g followed by character which > is not 1.
Loop through the array and check the value against this regexp m/.{3}g[^1].*\.fea/ If the array is being populated through some kind of file listing, my earlier suggestion holds. > > > ls ???[^g][^1] *.fea > > Many Thanks....please do send in ur replies. > > Mandar > > On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Sudarsan Raghavan wrote: > 2168a5_vow_band_1.fea > > > 169b2_vow_band_1.fea > > > 2168d6_vow_band_1.fea > > > 169g3_vow_band_1.fea > > > neutral.txt > > > > > > Mandar Rahurkar wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > I need to select particular files from list that looks like this : > 2168a5_vow_band_1.fea > > > 169b2_vow_band_1.fea > > > 2168d6_vow_band_1.fea > > > 169g3_vow_band_1.fea > > > neutral.txt > > > > > > 2168a5_vow_band_1.fea > > > 169b2_vow_band_1.fea > > > 2168d6_vow_band_1.fea > > > 169g3_vow_band_1.fea > > > neutral.txt > > > > > > This is how the list if files look like.I need files with only g for > > > eg > > > I can do it in linux as follows : > > > but this doesnt work in perl : > > > > Use the glob operator (perldoc -f glob and perldoc File::Glob) > > For e.g. to list files that start with 16 > > perl -e 'print "$_\n" while (<16*>)' > > ^^^^^ > > This is the how > > the glob operator is used for this e.g. > > > > > > > > > > ls ???[g][^1] *.fea > > > ls ???[^g][^1] *.fea > > > > > > I tried using : > > > exec(`ls ???[d][^1]*.fea > temp.neutral`) in perl doesnt work. > > > Please help... > > > > > > Many Thanks > > > Mandar > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > > Do You Yahoo!? > > > Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax > > > http://taxes.yahoo.com/ > > > > > > -- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]