Re: Regular Expression help

Thanks that works nicely now.


while ($FileStr !~ m/^([a-zA-Z])\w{0,7}\z/){
}
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Re^2: Regular Expression help by Corion (Patriarch) on Jan 07, 2008 at 17:35 UTC
Try your code with `a`, `ab`, `abc` and `abcd`. I think your written specification says that of these, only `abcd` should be accepted, but your regular expression currently accepts all four.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: Regular Expression help by suaveant (Parson) on Jan 07, 2008 at 17:35 UTC
almost works... I'd try a a filename under three characters before turning it in ;) - Ant - Some of my best work - (1 2 3)	[reply]
Re^2: Regular Expression help by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jan 07, 2008 at 17:48 UTC
Furthermore, `\w` is wrong. It allows characters that shouldn't be allowed. (Specifically, "`_`")	[reply] [d/l] [select]