Hi monks. Using opendir and readdir to pass a directory listing into an array. This leaves me with filename.ext (in this case .pdf). Before processing further I wish to strip off the trailing .pdf extension for which I thought s/// would be ideal so I put the following line together.

    $approvedpdfs =~ s/[A-Z]*.pdf/[A-Z]*/e;
[download]

It don't work - it gives me a syntax error. Just to make it explicit, the filename always begins with a capitalised letter hence [A-Z] but it also has spaces in it. I thought * was zero or more occurances of any possible character including the space.

Hmm.

Today is a good day to be stupid.

Plotinus

p.s. this isn't the first version of the string I've tried but haven't noted them down and can't remember what they are because regex's are just *sooo* readable and intuitive.

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