Hi Monks,

Please be gentle, I am new to Perl having picked up some scripts from a former colleague, however I am banging my head against the wall from something I feel should be rather simple.

So, I have a directory with a number of files, only one of those files have the letters '_CF_' in the filename in that order. I need to set a variable $ScontrolFile as the filename containing '_CF_'.

I thought the way to go was via an Array, I managed to read the files in from the Directory, and grep the entries to confirm the file I want is there, I can't seem to set the variable though.

Am I heading in the right direction or over complicating it?

Any hints, tricks or solutions will be greatly received.

Thanks

In reply to Setting a Variable from filename by UpMaBigKilt

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