PERL noob here.

I need to load an array with file names produced from a wildcard search on a Windows box. I would like to pass the wildcard to the PERL script if possible. Not having luck. Here is what I have

use Cwd;
my $dir = getcwd;
opendir DIR, $dir;
my @prfiles = grep { $_ eq $ARGV[0] && $_ ne '.' && $_ ne '..' } readd
+ir DIR;
closedir DIR;

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I created using examples that I have found. I think that partially, my problem is with the wildcarding.

This is what I would like to do: "perl loadfiles.pl testfile*.dat". Assuming I have testfile1,2,3,4.dat in the directory, it would load the array with these file names.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

In reply to Loading an array with file names by insta.gator

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