On Jul 1, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>\.[^(gz|html)]$
>
>this regex should match all files (lines) NOT ending with gz or html.
No, it shouldn't. It should match all files ending with a . followed by a
character that is not any of ()|^ghlmtz, followed by the end of the
string.
>but this is not working. the lines ending with .gz are still found.
>whats wrong with that?
The problem is that [...] is a CHARACTER class. You cannot put a STRING
in a character class. What you want to do is either change the sense of
your regex entirely:
if ($filename !~ /\.(gz|html)$/) {
# the !~ operator means "does not match"
}
or else use a negative look-ahead:
if ($filename =~ /\.(?!gz|html)[^.]*$/) {
# (?!...) means "is not followed by"
}
I think the first one is easier to understand at this stage.
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