On Oct 04, len wrote:
> I have the following statement and it works fine;
>
> list1 = glob.glob('*.dat')
>
> however I now have an additional requirement the the string must begin
> with any form of "UNQ,Unq,unq,..."
>
> as an example if I had the following four files in the directory:
>
> unq123abc.dat
> xy4223.dat
> myfile.dat
> UNQxyc123489-24.dat
>
> only unq123abc.dat and UNQxyc123489-24.dat would be selected
If glob is your preferred means, one option is:
$ touch unq1.dat UnQ1.dat unQ1.dat UNQ1.dat foo.dat
$ python -c '
- import glob
- print glob.glob("[uU][nN][qQ]*.dat")
- '
['unq1.dat', 'UnQ1.dat', 'unQ1.dat', 'UNQ1.dat']
$ man 3 fnmatch
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