Thanks all for the comments. I already read glob documentation,so that wasn't really helpful, and I don't recall anywhere that a wildcard was spcified there as required but perhaps.

I'm trying to think of a SAFE way to wildcard the file and only get exact matches (except for case). I'm thinking maybe glob for

myfilename*

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Then grep that list for files that match my original file length. Pretty tricky huh? I also read: 

https://metacpan.org/pod/Path%3A%3ATiny

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and ^F for "case" ; upper/lower didn't seem to be discussed at all.

I'm thinking of just using something like the old reliable albiet fugly:

  my @f = grep /^\Q$fileName\E$/i,readdir D;

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This whole endeavor of asking this was to get more skilled with glob(). It seems strange to me that part of glob() functionality is to return a subset of the set of files in a dir. That's exactly what I want to do - just different than a partial filename? That's why glob() seemed like a more natural approach to this requirement.

Larry said  Perl makes the difficult easy and the impossible possible. In this case, it seems it's making  Perl is making the easy, difficult! Just IMHO :)

TY sirs and ladies..

In reply to Re^2: Can I get help with Perl glob for filtering a directory by misterperl
in thread Can I get help with Perl glob for filtering a directory by misterperl

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