Re: regular expression?

[Andrew Perrin <aperrin@socrates.berkeley.edu>]

Of course, a regex is overkill in the below example; the equivalent is:

while (<DIRLIST>) {
	next unless $_ eq 'index.html';
	....
}

ap

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Andrew J Perrin - Ph.D. Candidate, UC Berkeley, Dept. of Sociology  
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On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Ben Collins wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 07:22:31PM -0600, William Jensen wrote:
> > Greetings,
> > 
> > I am trying to find a regular expression that will include every file
> > in a directory except one named one.  For example if I had a file
> > called index.html and then hundreds of other .html files in the same
> > directory, how can I do a reg expression to say "all the .html files"
> > except index.html?  Been rack'n my brain on this one for a bit of time
> > and I could use some help from someone more experienced.
> 
> Note sure in what context you are doing this, but in perl I would do:
> 
> while (<DIRLIST>) {
> 	/^index.html$/ and next;
> 	....
> }
> 
> and in shell
> 
> for file in `ls * | egrep -v '^index.html$'`; do
> 	....
> done
> 
> Ben
> 
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