Could you give some examples of legitimate filenames of all varieties you want ?
that would help me \ us to make unambiguous test cases to ascertain your regex and suggest improvements... -aman. -----Original Message----- From: Javeed SAR [mailto:SAR.Javeed@;sisl.co.in] Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 12:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: pattern > Hi all, > I want to input a string which is used to create file name, and I want to > allow input string to consist of letters(SDK) at the start and only IR and > DEV inbetween, and numbers(0-9) and > underscore( _ ) within file name. > Is the pattern right. > m/^SDK[0-9]|^SDK_[0-9]|^SDK_[0-9]_IR|^SDK_[0-9]_IR_DEV$/ > > > if ($input =~ /what pattern /){ > create file > } else { > exit 0; } > > > > Regards > j@veed > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
