in reply to dont consider if (......)

Have you looked at perlre? It documents how you can match more than one character in a place when using regular expressions.

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Re: dont consider if (......)
by ungalnanban (Pilgrim) on Mar 01, 2010 at 08:27 UTC
    Is this you are expecting?
    Example.
     my $data=<STDIN>;
        if($data =~ /ipw\.r[^a-p][a-z]*/)
        {
                print "Match\n";
        }
        else
        {
                print "Not Match\n";
        }

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    OutPut
    ipw.raasdfdsf
Not Match
ipw.raasdfdsf
Not Match
ipw.rgdfgsdfsd
Not Match
ipw.rrwgorga
Match

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