thanks for your prompt reply...however this does not work..
program does not generate any output...
-Mandar
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;
>
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