I guess th error was "it doesn't work" ;-) 1

The '*' in regular expressions is a quantifier (0 or more) for whatever stood before it. It's not like '*' in shell globbing, where it stands for any number of characters.

next unless $file =~ m/^ AB \s DAT .* \.doc $/x;

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A regexp is overhead here, because you only check for constant strings: 'AB DAT' (that space is probaly not going to be a newline or tab someday) and '.doc', so it's more effective to say:

next unless
        substr($file,0,6) eq 'AB DAT'
    and substr($file,-4)  eq '.doc'
;

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1 whenever you have a problem, describe what went wrong. In this case now it was clear, but for the future: describe the unwanted behaviour.

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In reply to Re: Reg Expression on file name by fruiture
in thread Reg Expression on file name by Anonymous Monk

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