On Jul 15, Randal L. Schwartz said: >Jeff> my @crap = grep s/\.\w+$//, glob("*.pl *.pgp"); > >my @crap = map /(.*?)(?:\.\w+)?$/, glob("*.pl *.pgp");
That does too much work, though. We're guaranteed an extension... my @crap = map /(.*)\./s, glob("*.pl *.pgp"); -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ ** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by Manning, in 2002 ** <stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course. [ I'm looking for programming work. If you like my work, let me know. ] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]