Hello all, I have a problem matching a pattern in an array. I go an ftp site and download a listing of the directory. If the directory contains a string (The string happens to be x86.exe) then I write that to a file. The entries of the file contain along the lines of /path/to/remote/directory/0613x86.exe I want to compare the MM/DD with a local file and if the file on the ftp site is newer, then download it. Thanks for your help, here is my code so far. 
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
use Net::FTP;
#use strict;

$host = 'www.ftp.com';
$user = 'anonymous';
$pass = 'updatepuller@somewhere.com';
$remote_dir = '/path/to/remote/directory';
$oldfilename = `ls current-sig`;
chomp $oldfilename;
$destination_dir= "current-sig";

$ftp = Net::FTP->new($host, Debug => 1);
$ftp->login($user,$pass);
my @listing = $ftp->ls("$remote_dir");
for (@listing) {
    if ( /x86.exe/i ) {
  open(FH, ">> myfile.txt") || die "Can't open $file for write: $!";
print FH "$_\n"
               }
                      }
close FH;

open FH, "myfile.txt" or die "Couldn't open: $!";
while (<FH>) {
    @test = print "$_"
             }
close FH;
#$ftp->get("$remote_dir/$filename","$destination_dir/$filename");
$ftp->pasv();
$ftp->quit;

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