Hello All,
          Any ideas how to recreate a dos wildcard filemask of the type  "help*.txt" as a string for insertion in a pattern match.   At the moment I'm trying to write a subroutine that returns an escaped string which I then insert in my m//   ... ie 

$myregex = &my_regex_generator("help*.txt");
if( $mystring =~ /$myregex/i){do stuff....

at the moment I've got -

sub gen_convert_wildcards_to_regexp{
    my $wildcardstring = $_[0];
    my $regex_string = $wildcardstring;
    
    $regex_string =~ s/\./\\\./gi; #escape the dots
    $regex_string =~ s/\*/\\*/gi; #escape the
    $regex_string = $regex_string . "\\b\$"; 
    return $regex_string;
}

Which is pretty crap and fails with the * wildcard