"Hi Ken I tried your example but it wouldn't output anything."

The technique I showed should work fine. In his response below, Athanasius has highlighted the issue with your original premise (i.e. parent vs. current directory). You can still use the technique I provided, you'll just need to work it into the code fix he's shown.

"If I removed the pattern match string it does work but I'm not sure what it is printing out - the directory listing seems random."

Hashes are unordered: keys %hash_name will return a list of keys in an apparently random order. If you're interested, see the "Hash Algorithm" section of "perlsec: Algorithmic Complexity Attacks" for more details.

sort may provide the ordering you want. If not, you may want to consider an array, or perhaps a more complex data structure, instead of a hash, to store your data. See "perldsc - Perl Data Structures Cookbook".

-- Ken

In reply to Re^5: File:Find pattern match question by kcott
in thread File:Find pattern match question by RockE

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