for further reference i will attach these pattern files and a slightly modified version of my code using your regex.

use strict;
use warnings;
use diagnostics;

use File::Slurp;
use File::Copy::Recursive qw(rcopy fcopy);
use File::Basename;

my @dirs;
my @patterns;

my $dir1 = $ARGV[0];

get_filelist($dir1);
get_patterns();
move_files();

mkdir('./ripped');

sub get_filelist {

    my ($dir) = @_;
    my ($dh);
    if ( !opendir( $dh, $dir ) ) {
        return;
    }
    while ( my $file = readdir($dh) ) {
        next if ( -d $file );
        my $path = "$dir/$file";

        if ( -d $path ) {
            get_filelist("$path");
        }
        else {
            push( @dirs, "$dir/$file" );
        }
    }
}


sub get_patterns{

    my @files = read_dir('patterns');
    
    
        foreach my $element(@files){
            open my $file, '<', "patterns/$element";
            

        while(<$file>){
            #$_ =~s/[*]/.*/g;
            #$_ =~s/\\/\//g;
    $_ =~ s[\\/][\\\\/]g;
    $_ =~ s/\\/\\\//g;
    $_ =~ s/\./\\./g;
    $_ =~ s/^\*//;
    $_ .= '$' if $_ !~ s/\*$//;
    $_ =~ s/\*/.*/g;
    $_ =~ s/\?/./g;
    
            chomp $_;
            $_ = $_.'|';
            push @patterns, $_;
            
        }
        close($file);
    }
}

sub move_files{

    my $regex = join('', @patterns);
    print $regex;
    
for my $element(@dirs){

if ($element =~ $regex){
   print "Found $element\n";
# rcopy($element, "ripped/$element");

        }
    }
}
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here is the compelet pattern set. pattern files I thought i had it working, but it was still missing alot of files, and still copying alot of files it wasnt suppose to and i am unsure on which way to go with it now. i have tried replacing '*' with '.*' and '?' with '.', but it is still failing because it is replacing all instances of * and ?

i have also found Regexp::Wildcards i will see how that works as well

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