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On Oct 17, Mandar Rahurkar said:
>On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan wrote:
>
>> On Oct 17, Mandar Rahurkar said:
>>
>> >Hi,
>> > I am trying to write a regular expresssion which reads as :
>> >from the list of following files generate a list which does not start
>> >with 150d in the beginning:
>>
>> >@new= grep {/[^{no}]/} @list;
>>
>> First, you've got a character class [^...]. You don't want that.
>>
>> Second, you've got {no}, when you want $no.
>>
>> Third, you need the opposite of the regex (so use ! /.../).
>>
>> @new = grep { ! /^$no/ } @list;
>>
>> You might want to put a \Q before $no, to ensure that any regex characters
>> in $no are seen as normal characters.
>>
>> @new = grep !/^\Q$no/, @list;
>
>thanks for your prompt reply...however this does not work..
>program does not generate any output...
What program? Please show us the code you're (now) using.
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