On Jul 15, Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan said:
>On Jul 15, Jenda Krynicky said:
>
>>> (better question) is there a better way to achieve the same result?
>>
>> my @crap = map{ s/\.\w+$//; $_ } glob( '*.pl *.pgp');
>
>I'm so funny.
>
> my @crap = grep s/\.\w+$//, glob("*.pl *.pgp");
And here's a better regex:
s/\.(pl|pgp)$//
or
s/\.\w{2,3}$//
No reason not to be as specific as possible.
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