Re: To get file names from the search string

For example with a combination of readdir and grep:

my $dirname= '/some/directory/with/files';
my $input= '2013-09-04';
opendir my $dh, $dirname
    or die "Couldn't read '$dirname': $!";
my @found= grep /^\Q$input\E/, readdir $dh;

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In my opinion the easiest way is to use File::Glob::bsd_glob:

use File::Glob qw( bsd_glob );
my @found= bsd_glob("$input*");
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Re^2: To get file names from the search string by RichardK (Parson) on Sep 05, 2013 at 14:30 UTC
That's not what grep -il is doing, it outputs the filenames of the files whose content contains the string. So IMHO it's easier to use grep, unless there's more to this problem that we know about.	[reply]