On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 11:59 +0530, kapil.V wrote: > Hi, > I tried this to see if the file is an html: > perl -ne '!<html>.+?</html>!s and print "html\n"' html.htm > This does not work. What is the problem?
The <html> is rarely on the same line as the </html> in a html file so this will very rarely match. -- Ken Foskey FOSS developer -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/