Hi There Monks!

Trying to match file names with similar words on them, like these:

File name format samples:
20220401_note.txt
20220303_page.txt
20220101_page_with_blanks.txt
20220111_page_blanks.txt

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These are the words to match on all the file names I am trying to get:
...
my @get = qw(note page page_with_blanks page_blanks);

# I have a sub to process them as they get read from a directory, code
+ not complete but to show where the issue is:

sub get_count {

  my $dir = 'data';

  my $match = join '|',@get;
  
# Doing a for loop here to match according to the values in $match now
+:
  my @files = glob "$dir/*.txt";
  
for my $file (sort @files) {

     # $match only gets the file names with "page" and ignores "page_w
+ith_blanks" and  "page_blank".
     # How could I match all the file names and  the ones has "page" o
+nly, also the other variations?

     if ($file =~ /^\bdata\b\/($year\d{4})_($match)/g) {

      my $date = $1;
      my $name  = $2;
      print "D:$date - N:$name\n";
      # It would print:
      #D: 20220401 - N:note.txt
      #D: 20220303 - N:page.txt
      #D: 20220101 - N:page_with_blanks.txt
      #D: 20220111 - N:page_blanks.txt
}}

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I hope its an easy way to explain the issue!
Thanks for looking!

In reply to Match similar words in file name by Anonymous Monk

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