that is wrong because it includes "-" and "p" alone try (-p)? or noncapturing parens if you care -- vish
On 4 April 2011 09:40, Yaron Golan <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > I am trying to have the following 2 options valid into 1 REGEX, but not sure > that this is the best way to do it. > Please share your options. > > I wish that the following 2 strings will be valid: > mkdir /net/some/where > mkdir -p /net/some/where > > So far, the best REGEX I managed to come up with is: > ^mkdir ?-?p? /net/some/where$ > > Is there a better way? > I'd appreciate your answers ... > > _______________________________________________ > Perl mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl > _______________________________________________ Perl mailing list [email protected] http://mail.perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl
