in reply to Match entire string, not just first character

You don't need the quotation marks or the square brackets:

if ( /^\w[\s]+\w/ and not /^A pdb file/ )

But my guess is you're also trying to match full words separated by a space with the first pattern, so:

if ( /^\w+[\s]+\w+/ and not /^A pdb file/ )

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Re^2: Match entire string, not just first character
by SuzuBell (Acolyte) on Jul 18, 2013 at 19:36 UTC
    Thank you all so much for your help!!!