This is a newbie observation, but aren't you not supposed to name one of your own variables with a number as the first value after a $, @, or % as in the case of $2? Could this be part of the problem?
Andrew -----Original Message----- From: Marcelo Taube [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 4:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Problem with regular expressions!!! As u probably have guessed some part of my code is not working properly and i don't understand why!! This is the code. ##################################### $file_completename =~ /(.*?)\.(.*)/; if ($2 eq $extension]) { #DO SOMETHING!!! } ##################################### As u see, i'm trying to separate the complete name of a file in two parts, the filename ($1) and the extension($2)... then i check to see whatever a extension is of some kind and if it is, i do something. However this doesn't work. Because in $2, perl adds a "." before the extension. 4 example: if file_completename equal to "myfile.jpeg", then $2 equials to ".jpeg", but it should be "jpeg". What am i doing wrong? Thank u very much, Marcelo Taube _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
