simple grep

[arcnon]

match
^<data> but not ^-<data>

thanks

 

[Geekatron]

Sorry, maybe i'm being dense, but...was there a question in there somewhere?

--G

 

[rharsh]

I think this is what you're looking for.

my @test = ("Some Text", "-Some More Text");
print grep {/^[^-].*/} @test;

 

[tazhicham]

what's your question? exactly

 

[arcnon]

never mind what I had is working. I restarted and working as expected but data was the search word it is a xml type format

<data>
-<data>
#<data>blah<data>#
<>
-<data>
</data>

you name it there is a special character and <data> </data>
pretty stupid format they should at least put it in the <> a somewhat sounder way.

Anyway sorry for the poor question