what this represent..

[nechowdary]

hi plz explain this
[ ".*pxx.*\\\n.*saxx" , '"\tpxx"' ];

please explain this ..
thanks
gopi.

[ALL]

if you give us more of the code we can help you better... anyway...

it probably has a variable or something infront of it so...

$variable[".*pxx.*\\\n.*saxx" , '"\tpxx"']

the .* means anycharacter to any length
pxx means just pxx
again .* means any character any length
\\ means escape the slash... so it will out put a single \
\n means new line
you know what .* means...
saxx is just a sting like pxx was...
not exactly sure what the comma represents because i dont have all the code...
\t means tab character
pxx means just pxx
and the two double quotes means just double quotes...

so it should match te following in the first expression...

"hello003mynam3i5j0npxx\
withanycharacters442s saxx"

"asdf442nasj2



pxx
eddfew\
saxx"

[nechowdary]

if you give us more of the code we can help you better... anyway...

it probably has a variable or something infront of it so...

$variable[".*pxx.*\\\n.*saxx" , '"\tpxx"']

the .* means anycharacter to any length
pxx means just pxx
again .* means any character any length
\\ means escape the slash... so it will out put a single \
\n means new line
you know what .* means...
saxx is just a sting like pxx was...
not exactly sure what the comma represents because i dont have all the code...
\t means tab character
pxx means just pxx
and the two double quotes means just double quotes...

so it should match te following in the first expression...

"hello003mynam3i5j0npxx\
withanycharacters442s saxx"

"asdf442nasj2



pxx
eddfew\
saxx"

Thanks for u r help..
the above given expression is assigned to a scalar that is..
$h_list{"Mfile"} =
[ ".*pxx.*\\\n.*saxx" , '"\txx" ' ];
plz let me know abt this..
Thanks
ALL