Thanks for pointing that out. It was just a laziness on my part.

say i feed the script the $string. and then in the end it outputs a regex. At which point i can store that regex and run it against other strings to find matches which are similar. The regex produced gives me enough unique info to make an exact path match, rather then slightly similar ones. Bascially leave in the static elements, and .* out the dynamic elements.

I'm well aware that it's a cludge, but i'm stuck with a large listing of these and i'm trying to make sorting(and sorting in the future) a little easier on me.

I just have no idea why it won't match that last digit. Perhaps i've been looking at it too long.