Hello all, I am really at a loss with this one.

I have a list of items that have corresponding pictures on a server and i need to be able to download only the pictures that correspond to items on my list. Example...

Item: M151 Picture name on server: Aficionado_M151_PHOTO1.jpg

I have my list of items (about 200) in an excel file.

I have tried using grep to find the files on the server, ive used ls() to get the list of all files, and many other things... Obviously i am missing something.

I am relatively new to perl and programming in general so any insight is appreciated. I would post my code but im hoping somebody can take it in a completely different that ive tried.

Thank you.

In reply to Retrieving a list of Specific Files from FTP by whoops

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