Don't escape them! let them be free to do their groovy regex things - you
need the ()'s and the pipe unescaped..
The brackets because you want to capture the return value for that expression
and the pipe for OR.
The period (.) does need to be escaped since it will otherwise act as 'any
character'.
If you use the expression with the brackets and pipes escaped then it'll
only be true if your file is named something like:
mypicture.(gif|jpg|jpeg)
literally i.e. brackets etc. included as part of the filename - and you
don't want that!
I love regex :>
Jerry.
At 15:17 18/04/01 +0100, you wrote:
>On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, admin wrote:
>> > I've implemented the following \.(gif|jpg|jpeg)$ but it doesn't seem to
> return a true value on any file name I give.
>>it's probably
>>\.\(gif\|jpg\|jpeg\)$
>>that you want.
>>Good Luck,
>Mark
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