"len" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have the following statement and it works fine; > > list1 = glob.glob('*.dat')
that's a glob pattern, not a regular expression. > however I now have an additional requirement the the string must begin > with any form of "UNQ,Unq,unq,..." list1 = glob.glob('*.dat') list1 = [file for file in list1 if file.lower().startswith("unq")] </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list