#!perl use strict; use warnings; use 5.010; use Data::Dumper; my @list = qw[ Xindex r-index.txt Index.txt notIdx.txt ]; my @file = grep( /index/i , @list ); say Dumper( \@file ); __END__ $VAR1 = [ 'Xindex', 'QIndex', 'r-index.txt', 'Index.txt' ];