sorry for not being so specific and I really want to learn perl, but am a novice. Here is the code snippet I've written. I've declared wk as 02,but this changes every week and am not sure how to get that info. Also there may be other weeks files lying around in ftp server. 

sub getfilelist {
my $ftp = shift;
my @fileist =  $ftp->dir or die "Unable to retrieve file listing";
my $WK = '02';

    for my $file ( @filelist ) {

        next unless $file =~ m/ ^AB$WKCD.txt$/ or $file =~ m/ ^BC$WKDE
+.txt$/;

        }
}

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In reply to Re^2: How to retrieve files from ftp server by Rajiram
in thread How to retrieve files from ftp server by Rajiram

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