What are you trying to match? If it's just the dir name then: /\/(tmp_\w)/ will do it and set $1 to equal your directory name.
~mark. http://www.workzoo.com/ "Zysman, Roiy" wrote: > Hi All, > As we all know Regular Expressions are very greedy and tries to big as big > as possible. > How do i limit a regular expression for example ion the follwing case > > i try to find a specific directory called tmp_* in some paths which are like > this > > /dir1/dir2/dir3/tmp_test1/dir4/dir5.../.../... > /dir6/dir7/dir8/tmp_test2/dir9/dir10../.../..../... > > if i use (\S+) it will also catch the following dirs, even if i use (\S+)\/ > Any suggestions ? > Thx Roiy > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
