I'm trying to check a directory for the existence of a specific file using pattern matching. If the file is there, it matches and executes the "Block" normally. However, if there is no file there, it should do something else.....instead it does nothing, I guess because there's no file to attempt to match the pattern to. Should I use 2 seperate if conditionals? 1. if a file is there & it matches do this, and then a seperate if conditional...if there are no files do this....I would surely like to do it with one if-else conditional. 
opendir(DULS, 'D:\COLD\DULS');
chdir 'D:\COLD\DULS';
@files = glob ('cold*');
foreach $file (@files)
{
print CBDOWNLOAD "Cold Backup file exists for DULS for $FileName.\n" i
+f ($file =~ m/^cold/);

system ('awtrap -h RLGH -f DULS "DULSVASG001:  Unable to download the 
+file."') if ($file !~ m/^cold/); 
}

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Please drop some knowledge on a brotha....!!!

In reply to File check w/no files by cybermack72

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