If, as it appears, you are trying to find a file with a fixed name rather than a group of files with a common part to their name, no regexp is required. Just perform a string comparison on the filename.

 if ($file eq 'carlos.txt')

This script will list everything in the directory where the script is located and point out the file named 'carlos.txt'

use strict;

my $file;

# Read the current directory into an array
opendir(my $dir, '.');
my @files = readdir($dir);
closedir ($dir);

# Iterate over array to file file
foreach $file(@files) {
    print "$file";
    if ($file eq 'carlos.txt') {
        print "  <------------- Found File";
    }
    print "\n";
}

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In reply to Re: Perl script to delete files using regex by Bod
in thread Perl script to delete files using regex by CarlosN

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