The '\' in your regular expression does nothing "twice" because 1) it's invisible because it's not escaped with another '\' and 2) $_ will contain only the filename, not any of the separtors.

Your print can be done with: 

print CSV "
SERVER01.dbdev1=(DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS_LIST=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOS
+T=SERVER01)(PORT=1527)))(CONNECT_DATA=(SID=dbDEV1)))
SERVER01.dbdev2=(DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS_LIST=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOS
+T=SERVER01)(PORT=1527)))(CONNECT_DATA=(SID=dbDEV2)))
SERVER01.dbintst=(DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS_LIST=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HO
+ST=SERVER01)(PORT=1527)))(CONNECT_DATA=(SID=dbINTST)))
SERVER01.dbmstr=(DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS_LIST=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOS
+T=SERVER01)(PORT=1527)))(CONNECT_DATA=(SID=dbmstr)))
";

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Probably. This would deiniftely be OK on *nix, but with the odd newline sequence in Win32, it may not act as expected...

But I really don't know why it's so slow. Maybe you should count how many times wanted() gets called - perhaps you just have a god-waful numbe rof files on your system. --Bob Niederman, http://bob-n.com

In reply to Re: Speedy directory searching by bobn
in thread Speedy directory searching by ironpaw

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