Hello Griegomas, and welcome to the Monastery!

I have a hunch it is the "" around ext1 in my find statements...

Yes, exactly. Suppose the value of $ext1 is txt. Then the regular expression /\"$ext1"$/ will match a filename such as example."txt" but not a filename such as example.txt.

...but the first $ was causing problems without it and I wasn't sure how else to resolve the issue.

There shouldn’t be any problem:

 1:11 >perl -wE "my $ext = 'txt'; my $file = 'example.txt'; say 'match
+es' if $file =~ /$ext$/;"
matches

 1:12 >

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Regular expressions interpolate (except when single quotes are used as the delimiters) — see perlop#Quote-and-Quote-like-Operators. Please explain the problem you were seeing (give details).

Hope that helps,

Athanasius <°(((>< contra mundum Iustus alius egestas vitae, eros Piratica,

In reply to Re: Help needed with Perl script designed to find files by extension and count the number of chars by Athanasius
in thread Help needed with Perl script designed to find files by extension and count the number of chars by Griegomas

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