Re^2: Find the last item in a series of files


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Re^2: Find the last item in a series of files

by CountZero (Bishop)

on Jun 16, 2017 at 16:30 UTC ( [id://1192963]=note: print w/replies, xml )

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Very nice solution!

A small improvement makes the regex a bit more specific and have it reject filenames that do not match the expected file name template.

use strict;
use warnings;

my %names;

/^([^.]+)\.(\d{3})$/ and $names{$1}[$2] = $_ while <DATA>;

print $names{$_}[-1] for sort keys %names;

__DATA__
file.001
file.003
not.good.001
file.002
file.10
one.004
two.001
two.003
two.five
one.002
one.001
one.0039
two.002
.005
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