Yes, but you need to group the alternations, and for efficiency, the grouping should be non-capturing:

#! perl use strict; use warnings; for ( 'ASQWERFD.YYxxxx.W12345.XYZQW.D072413.csv', 'ASQWERFD.YYxxxx.W12345.XYZQW.D072413.txt', 'ASQWERFD.YYxxxx.W12345.XYZQW.D072413.dat', 'ASQWERFD.YYxxxx.W12345.KMHYT.D072413.csv', 'ASQWERFD.YYxxxx.W12345.XYZQA.D072413.csv', ) { if (/ .{10,} (?: XYZQW | KMHYT) .* \. (?: csv | txt) $ /ix) { print "Matched $_\n"; } else { print "Ignoring $_\n"; } }

Output:

11:57 >perl 673_SoPW.pl Matched ASQWERFD.YYxxxx.W12345.XYZQW.D072413.csv Matched ASQWERFD.YYxxxx.W12345.XYZQW.D072413.txt Ignoring ASQWERFD.YYxxxx.W12345.XYZQW.D072413.dat Matched ASQWERFD.YYxxxx.W12345.KMHYT.D072413.csv Ignoring ASQWERFD.YYxxxx.W12345.XYZQA.D072413.csv 11:57 >

On grouping, see Regular Expressions:

WARNING: Once Perl sees that you need one of $&, $`, or $' anywhere in the program, it has to provide them for every pattern match. This may substantially slow your program. Perl uses the same mechanism to produce $1, $2, etc, so you also pay a price for each pattern that contains capturing parentheses. (To avoid this cost while retaining the grouping behaviour, use the extended regular expression (?: ... ) instead.)

Note that I’ve also used /x for improved readability.

Hope that helps,

Athanasius <°(((><contra mundum Iustus alius egestas vitae, eros Piratica,


In reply to Re^3: Best way to match a file. by Athanasius
in thread Best way to match a file. by Anonymous Monk

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