in reply to File name filtering with ^ ?

Rory.

Thanks for posting :)

^ signifies the beginning unless you're inside of square brackets, in which case (as cdarke pointed out) it means 'not'.

What you're probably looking for is something like: 
my @files = () ;
opendir DIR, '/path/to/dir' ;
foreach( readdir DIR ){ 
 # do this unless it matches a digit or char followed by T 
 #  or V followed by anything.
 push @files, $_ unless/[\d\w][TV].*/ ;
}

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Re^2: File name filtering with ^ ?
by xicheng (Sexton) on Mar 20, 2007 at 05:50 UTC 
    [\d\w] is the same as \w, and adding an anchor to the regex pattern might be more efficient:

   push @files, $_ if /^\w[^TV]/; 

or simply:

   my @files = grep {/^\w[^TV]/} glob("*.pl");

or try shell to negate the character-class:

   my @files = glob("h[!TV]*.pl");

Regards, 
Xicheng
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