Re: [misterhouse-users] Re: quick Directory Index.html

[Holly J. S. <so...@mu...>]

On Sat, 8 Jul 2000, Michael wrote:

> missed something.. the names are all the same amount of characters and
> numbers..... such as cam2-123456.jp and cam2-123456Thumb.jpg so was looking
> for something (wildcard?) to change $files to cam2-123456.jpg instead of the
> Thumb one..

Wildcard in perl for 0 or more matches is *
                 for 1 or more matches is +
                 for 1 or 0 matches is ?

So, a match for $file =~ /cam2-(\d)+.jpg/ will match on cam2-12345.jpg
(the \d is a metacharacter for digits), but not cam2-12345Thumb.jpg.

-Holly