On Tue, 07 Dec 2004 11:07:54 -0700, Jeffrey Paul Burger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> I've read a directory into an array called @file_list and need to remove any
> files that start with period from the list (".", "..", ".DS_Store", etc.).
> This is what I've got so far, but it's only removing "..", still leaving "."
> and ".DS_Store". Does the period need to be escaped somehow? Help!
>
> foreach (@file_list) {
> if ($_ =~ /^.+/ {
replace with /^\.+/
have to escape the '.' otherwise that should match ANY string . '.' referes to
any character (if i recall correctly) in a regex. actually, i'm surprised that
it didn't remove /all/ files from the list- maybe I'm wrong somewhere here?
> Thanks sooooooooo much!
>
> Jeffrey Paul Burger
good luck :)
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