in reply to Re^7: Looking up elements of an array in another array!
in thread Looking up elements of an array in another array!

This code will do

foreach my $id (@ids) { #Replace brackets with underscore $id=~s/</_/; $id=~s/>/_/; #declare regex pattern my $ext = "[^0-9]*\.jpg"; my $a_ext=quotemeta($id).$ext;