regex - Negative look-ahead assertion in list.files in R -


i try list files in directory not start "camera1", end ".png". doing so, using regular expression in list.files in r. exclude "camera1", tried use negative lookahead, doesn't work. mistake? ;)

list.files(pathtodirectory, pattern = "^(?!camera1).*\\.png") 

i error: invalid 'pattern' regular expression in advance :)

looks default engine doesn't lookarounds, need use perl. works:

dat <- c("camera1.png", "camera2.png", "hello.png", "boo") grep("^(?!camera1).*\\.png", dat, value=t, perl=t) # [1] "camera2.png" "hello.png"  

but doesn't:

grep("^(?!camera1).*\\.png", dat, value=t) # invalid regular expression '(?<!camera1)\.png', reason 'invalid regexp' 

so, what want:

grep("(?<!camera1)\\.png", list.files(), perl=t, value=t) 

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