Re^5: Help with a regular expression for file name parsing

Question: What should SOME EXPRESSION be, so that if SOME STRING is...

Such a regular expression cannot exist, not in an if block

You can match the filename portion (for which you already got a regex that works), but you have to remove the quotes and escapes afterwards (using s///|substitution operator)

In short, you want a function that does the job

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Re^6: Help with a regular expression for file name parsing by bontchev (Sexton) on Dec 09, 2011 at 08:08 UTC
Such a regular expression cannot exist, not in an if block OK, understood. I'll have to do it in two or more steps, then. You can match the filename portion (for which you already got a regex that works), but you have to remove the quotes and escapes afterwards (using s///\|substitution operator) OK, that's what I'll do, although just removing the backslashes seems too primitive to me. I'll try to find a better solution.	[reply]

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Re^6: Help with a regular expression for file name parsing
by bontchev (Sexton) on Dec 09, 2011 at 08:08 UTC

Such a regular expression cannot exist, not in an if block

OK, understood. I'll have to do it in two or more steps, then.

You can match the filename portion (for which you already got a regex that works), but you have to remove the quotes and escapes afterwards (using s///|substitution operator)

OK, that's what I'll do, although just removing the backslashes seems too primitive to me. I'll try to find a better solution.

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