Sorry if that title isn't clear. Say I have a directory, and all the files are named like this: 
foo_1.bar
foo_2.bar
foo_3.bar
# and so on...

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I have a perl sub that I want to open the directory, read through all the names, select the last one(i.e. the one with the highest number), parse the number off the end and autoincrement it, in order to get a new filename like the ones already there. I've tried reading through all files, sorting them and doing $#files++, but that seems to be rather longwinded and also only worked some of the time (I don't know why, clearly my bad). So can anyone suggest a better way?

In reply to Reading directories and parsing standard names by Amoe

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