I agree with salva here. Simple globbing fits the bill nicely.

If you're a Windows programmer, not a Unix/Linux programmer, then you may not already be familiar with the ability to use globs (wildcards) for folder names as well as for file names. As a Perl programmer, folder globbing is a powerful tool you'll want to add to your toolkit.

Here's a concrete example using File::Glob::bsd_glob:

C:\>perl -MFile::Glob=bsd_glob -E "say bsd_glob('C:/Program Files/Micr
+osoft Office/*/WINWORD.exe')"
C:/Program Files/Microsoft Office/Office12/WINWORD.exe

C:\>

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(There could be a file named WINWORD.exe in more than one subfolder of C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office, so the value returned by bsd_glob is a list, not a scalar.)

Many of my Perl scripts running on Windows use File::Glob like this:

use English qw( -no_match_vars );
use File::Glob qw( bsd_glob );

@ARGV = map { bsd_glob($ARG) } @ARGV;

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Jim

In reply to Re: Accessing a folder whose name changes daily by Jim
in thread Accessing a folder whose name changes daily by JennieInMI

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