Dr.Ruud wrote: > Thomas Bätzler schreef: > >> [ !/^\.$|^\.\.$/ and !/^\.\.?$/ ] >> I'm assuming that this regex would be faster, too, since it >> does not contain an alternation. > > That is hard to say without actual benchmarking: the regex-optimizer > gets better with every new version of perl. >
But wouldn't that only look for the parent director file? Isn't it looking for a file with exactly two dots? -- Mathew -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>