Thanks for pointing that out. It was just a laziness on my part.

say i feed the script the $string. and then in the end it outputs a regex. At which point i can store that regex and run it against other strings to find matches which are similar. The regex produced gives me enough unique info to make an exact path match, rather then slightly similar ones. Bascially leave in the static elements, and .* out the dynamic elements.

I'm well aware that it's a cludge, but i'm stuck with a large listing of these and i'm trying to make sorting(and sorting in the future) a little easier on me.

I just have no idea why it won't match that last digit. Perhaps i've been looking at it too long.

In reply to Re: Re: help in understanding odd regex match by jaco
in thread help in understanding odd regex match by jaco

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.