Re: regexp exclude a string

[murugu]

Hi Murcia,

If i understand your question correctly, Here is my code.

#get the files under a directory using readdir or glob.
my @a = qw(text1 text2 text3);# filenames in an array.
my @found;
foreach my $a (@a) {
   my $FH;
   open ($FH, $a) or die ("unable to open $a: $!\n");
   while (<$FH>) {
       if (m/green|blue|red/ && !m/green red blue/) {
           push @found ,$a;  
           last;
       }
    }
   close $FH;
}
print $_,$/ for (@found);

[blazar]

And if I understand his question correctly, this will fail if he has "this is green and yellow" on one line in a file and "green red blue" on the next one.