Hi Aaron, In perlre I read that \w " - \w [3] Match a "word" character (alphanumeric plus "_", plus - other connector punctuation chars plus Unicode - marks)
" So since I didn't know what these 'other' connection punctuation chars are I avoided it. Unicode makes things more complicated for me. Do you know? Thanks, Jovan On Sat, Nov 5, 2016 at 10:27 AM, Aaron Wells <chacewe...@gmail.com> wrote: > *predefined > > On Sat, Nov 5, 2016, 10:27 AM Aaron Wells <chacewe...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi Jovan. \w is a presidents character classes that is equivalent to >> [A-Za-z0-9_], so this works also: >> m/^\w+$/ >> >> On Sat, Nov 5, 2016, 10:24 AM Jovan Trujillo <jovan.trujil...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> Ah, I figured it out. >> m/^[A-Za-z0-9_]+$/ works because it will only match if the entire string >> follows the pattern. Thanks! >> >> On Sat, Nov 5, 2016 at 10:14 AM, Jovan Trujillo < >> jovan.trujil...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi All, >> I thought I could use a simple regex to match files like this: >> >> 1207003PE_GM_09TNPLM2 >> >> and ignore files with extensions like this: >> >> 1207003PE_GM_09TNPLM2.csv >> >> I originally though m/[A-Za-z0-9\_]+/ would work, but it captures both >> strings. >> So then I tried m/[A-Za-z0-9\_]+(?!\.)/ but I still get both strings >> captured. >> >> What am I doing wrong? >> >> Thank you, >> Jovan >> >> >>
