Many thanks! Both of your snips provided the necessary clues.
Best,
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> From: "John W. Krahn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2004 11:55:48 -0800
> To: Perl Beginners <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Another regular expression matching quandry
>
> Jeffrey Paul Burger 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 ($_ =~ /^.+/ {
>
> perldoc perlre
> [snip]
> . Match any character (except newline)
> [snip]
> Any single character matches itself, unless it is a metacharacter with
> a special meaning described here or above. You can cause characters
> that normally function as metacharacters to be interpreted literally
> by
> prefixing them with a "\" (e.g., "\." matches a ".", not any
> character;
> "\\" matches a "\"). A series of characters matches that series of
> characters in the target string, so the pattern "blurfl" would match
> "blurfl" in the target string.
>
>
>> $discard = shift (@file_list);
>
> perldoc perlsyn
> [snip]
> If any part of LIST is an array, "foreach" will get very confused if
> you add or remove elements within the loop body, for example with
> "splice". So don't do that.
> ++++++++++++++++
> ================
>
>> }
>> }
>
>
> John
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