Please ignore my previous post and my most recent lapse in useful
thought...

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From: Joseph P. Discenza [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 9:30 AM
To: Barlow, Neil; 'Gould, Kevin';
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Subject: RE: Regualr Expression Again...


Barlow, Neil wrote, on Wednesday, September 11, 2002 9:53 AM
: I am looking to match \ at the end of the line - 
: Have tried $scandir=~/\\$/ and am still not getting a match 
: My input is C:\

perl -e "$r=qq(c:\\);print qq(yay\n) if ($r=~/\\$/);"

prints "yay"; same if $r=qq(c:\\\n). (Someone suggested that
a trailing newline could be your problem; it certainly isn't.

Are you absolutely sure your input is C:\? Can you print it
out before the match?

Joe

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