Your problem is in the 
  next if (($_ != m/^\.+$/) || ($_ != m/^ws\_ftp/i));
line. Get rid of the "$_ !=" in each of them.

The reason for this has to do with Perl numeric conversion of strings. I believe that what it is doing is applying the match, getting back either a 1 (true) or "" (false). The 1 is a one, no problem in converting it there, but the "" converts to 0.

Then when it converts your file name (and it does this due to the !=, a numeric operation) "1234.ppt" it gets back 1234, which will not match either a 1 or a 0. For files that don't start with numbers, you're not having the problem because they're all converting to 0.

I'm a little surprised you haven't gotten any filenames that start with ws_ftp, though. It seems like you should be getting some bad filenames as well as having the others omitted.

In reply to Re: Fetdching filenames starting numbers. by Anonymous Monk
in thread Fetdching filenames starting numbers. by Anonymous Monk

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