Hi all,

This is my first time at Perl Monks, and I'm pretty new at Perl, but not that new, lol. I have a question, which should be easy to solve, but that I can't seem to find the answer to. :-(

Here is the question:

I'm making a MS-DOS search program, using glob, and I can't seem to get the questions to appear one after the other. This is just the core of the program. I'll add error messages later: 




$stdin = <STDIN> ;

 sub ext {

print "Name the extension of the file that you want to find:" ;


$ext = <STDIN> ;

$e = $ext ;

}

 sub name {

print "Name the filename of the file that you want to find:" ;

$file = <STDIN> ;

$f = $file ;

}

sub dir {

print "Name the directory that you want to search:" ;

$dir = <STDIN> ;

$d = $dir ;

}

opendir(DIR, $dir) ;

$s = "$f\.$e" ;

$x = glob($s) ;

print ("Here are the file(s) that you requested: $x") ;

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I know it might not work, but this is a project that I started a while ago, and I just got to trying to make it work. :-)

Thanks everyone. :-)

Mr Cassata

Edit kudra, 2002-05-13 Changed title

In reply to MS-DOS search using globs by Mr_Cassata

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