Re: Making regex's

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

Dermot wrote:
I am trying to create a regex to match a directory name in path string
  my $dir = dirname(shift);
  (my $code) = ($dir =~ m|track.(\w{3}).|);
  return $code;

An unescaped . in a regex matches any character except a newline. I 
suppose you meant m|track\.(\w{3})\.|

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