Jeff 'Japhy' Pinyan wrote at Tue, 01 Jul 2003 12:39:37 -0400:
> On Jul 1, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>
>>\.[^(gz|html)]$
>>
>>this regex should match all files (lines) NOT ending with gz or html.
>
> or else use a negative look-ahead:
>
> if ($filename =~ /\.(?!gz|html)[^.]*$/) {
> # (?!...) means "is not followed by"
> }
That regexp does not match only for files ending on .gz or .html,
but also for files ending on .gzsz or .htmlx or similar.
I would prefer to write it as
/\.(?!gz$|html$)/
or
/\.(?!(gz|html)$)/
Greetings,
Janek
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