Re: glob and regex

It's not clear what you are actually doing. You have a regex, but you are also talking about globs. What are you doing with the glob? What are you matching against what, and what matches and what doesn't? /[A-Za-z]{2}_\w{2,5}/ matches any string that contains two letters (either case), followed by an underscore, followed by at least 2 word characters.

But that's a regex, not a glob.

Abigail

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Re: Re: glob and regex by dragonchild (Archbishop) on Oct 09, 2003 at 16:22 UTC
According to Camel (3rd) on p. 85, it says: `@files = glob $some_pattern; # Call glob as an operator.` [download] When I first read that, I thought $some_pattern meant $some_regex. But, it doesn't. (Or, rather, it does mean $some_regex, but it means to use a regex with a different syntax than Perl's regex syntax.) What the OP is looking for probably falls under the category of: `my @files = grep { /[A-Za-z]{2}_\w{2,5}/ } glob "??_??";` [download] Two different regex syntaxes. shrugs ------ We are the carpenters and bricklayers of the Information Age. The idea is a little like C++ templates, except not quite so brain-meltingly complicated. -- TheDamian, Exegesis 6 Please remember that I'm crufty and crochety. All opinions are purely mine and all code is untested, unless otherwise specified.	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re: Re: glob and regex
by dragonchild (Archbishop) on Oct 09, 2003 at 16:22 UTC

    @files = glob $some_pattern;    # Call glob as an operator.
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When I first read that, I thought $some_pattern meant $some_regex. But, it doesn't. (Or, rather, it does mean $some_regex, but it means to use a regex with a different syntax than Perl's regex syntax.)

What the OP is looking for probably falls under the category of:

my @files =
    grep { /[A-Za-z]{2}_\w{2,5}/ }
        glob "??_??";
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Two different regex syntaxes. *shrugs*

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