Scott K Purcell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> @allfiles = grep !/[fish|apple]/, @allfiles; # does not work. 
> Does not give 
> an error, but leaves nothing in @allfiles.
> 
> Is anyone out there familiar with grep enough to help me? Thanks

You mean someone familiar with regular expressions.
[] denotes a character class (a single-character match)
so [fish|apple] is the same as [aefhips|]. What you probably
want is (fish|apple) instead.


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Mark Thomas
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