i want all directoris of this format :

 .* then followed by "plugin" then .* (this .* doesnot contain any slash)

 for ex, this shd match /home/plugin_5.6
 but this shd not match /homt/plugin/package

can some body give me regular expression for this ? thnx in advance

Hi,

 I'm master of Perl regex.
print "1 Matched\n" if '/home/plugin_5.6' =~ /.*?plugin[^\/]*$/;
print "2 Matched\n" if '/homt/plugin/package' =~ /.*?plugin[^\/]*$/;

Regards,
 Serge
http://www.gameintellect.com