trying to build a regular expression to match bus names in a design.

so if the bus is pce_rx_n[15:0], I want to be able to match pce_rx_n1 but not pce_rx_n10...pce_rx_n15

I can't figure out what to put at the end of the regex..

I can't use a dollar at the end of the regex because i also want to match pce_rx_n1_blah

I've tried /pce_rx_n1\D/ but that only works for the pce_rx_n1_blah case

/pce_rx_n1\D?/ doesn't work because no \D will match

I thought this might be the answer... but no dice /pce_rx_n1[\D$]?/ 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
#setup bus pins

my @pinList=();
for my $i (0..15) {
  push @pinList,"pce_rx_n$i";
  push @pinList,"pce_rx_p$i";
  push @pinList,"pce_tx_n$i";
  push @pinList,"pce_tx_p$i";
  push @pinList,"cwx_tx_n${i}_blah";
  push @pinList,"cwx_rx_p${i}bleh";
}

#
#Here lies the match string I am trying to build
#I loosened it up more to match the tx or rx pins with any 
# pce or cwx prefix

#my $match_str="[tr]x_n1[\\D\$]";
#
#here is the Fix from Anaomalous Monk using the zero width 
#negative look-ahead assertion
#
my $match_str="[tr]x_n1(?!\\d)";


print "match_str=$match_str\n";

#now highlight any matches

foreach my $pn (@pinList){
  print "$pn";
  if ($pn=~/$match_str/i) {
    print "***";
  }
  print"\n";
}

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In reply to regular expression to match specific members of a bus_name by boleary

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