On Sunday 25 March 2007 18:14, Matt Herzog wrote: > On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 03:09:31PM -0700, Wagner, David --- Senior Programmer Analyst --- WGO wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Matt Herzog [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 15:00 > > > To: Begin Perl > > > Subject: File::Find again > > > > > > Hello All. > > > > > > I can see why people hate this module but I can't seem to let go. > > > I point this script at a deep dir structure that has java .properties > > > files sprinkled throughout it. Right now when I have my regex > > > "hard coded" > > > in the file, (.properties$) the search works fine. I need to > > > be able to use > > > the variable $searchstring at the command line. Is this even > > > possible? If > > > not, is there a way to exclude directories from being returned? > > This is all I needed. I swear I had " /($searchstring)/; " in there at > some point before . . . so if I pass it > > -s "\.properties$" > > at the command line, it works as expetcted. Nice.
That might be a shell thing? In Linux bash shell those quotes (I think) tell the shell to not interpret anything inside the quotes. -- Alan. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
