amoura has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello folks , my file contain the followings : 
user/bla/bli/one.cxx
cxx bla hi /bin
user/somthing/cxx

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well I am trying somehow to only grep the directory bla in the first line and one.cxx file from the first line .

when I do match string , I get stuff like cxxd or scxx , I need only the .cxx file and the dirctory containing that file . can someone help .. thanks

2002-06-25 Edit by Corion Added formatting and moved to Seekers of Perl Wisdom

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Re: grep string
by kvale (Monsignor) on Jun 25, 2002 at 20:34 UTC
    You could first read in the first line like so: 
    open FILE, "<file.txt" or die "Could not open file.txt: $!";
my $line = <FILE>;
close FILE;

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    I am not sure what you are trying to grep here, but your unwanted matches are due to two reasons: you didn't escape the metacharacter `.' and you probably didn't exclude stuff off the end of the string. Try something like, e.g., 
    $line =~ m|^\Q$path/$file\E$|;

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    The ^ and $ make the regexp match just the exact string and nothing else on the line, and the \Q...\E quote any metacharacters in your string.

    -Mark
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      thanks dude , it worked ;)
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