In the follow code (in progress), I have two arrays, @toget and @sourcefiles. @toget contains a list of base file names I need to find (they might have a different extension) and @sourcefiles is a listing of all the files I wish to look through.

What I am wondering is if I can match a regex against an array to see if there is an element that matches, if so, I want to retrieve that element.

For example, can I do this:  if (@sourcefiles =~ /.*P.*\.0912\.ama\.gz/) { ..code.. };

I am trying to avoid having to do a File::Find on every pattern I'm looking for or having to iterate through the arrays to compare @toget to see if each element is in @sourcefiles.

Any ideas are appreciated.

TIA, Chad. 

#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w


use strict;
use File::Find;
use Data::Dumper;



my $file = "/u90/gvc_archive/ama_recover/chad.lst";
my $startDir = "u90/gvc_archive/ama_recover";
my $destDir = "$startDir/4tych";
my @toget;
my @sourcefiles;

chdir $startDir;

open(FILES,"<$file");

for (<FILES>){
     push(@toget,$_);
}


find(\&pushsources,".");

sub pushsources {
    my $file = $File::Find::name;
    push(@sourcefiles,$file);
}

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