You appear to be printing out the final value of "$LookFor" as a confirmation/debugging message, prior to actually doing the search. So the big question is: what shows up as the value of "$LookFor"? Given the code and sample file names you've given us just now, the last bit we're missing is knowing the values of the various "$srch_XXX" strings -- maybe this can be guessed at if we know what shows up as the final value of "$LookFor", and it will be possible to work out why it's giving you results you don't want.

Apart from that, looking at what you have above, and assuming that "$srch_host" always has a literal-match string (like "box1", "box12", etc), then the part where you use "$LookFor" in a regex (not in your snippet) ought to work if you use it like this: 

   if( /^$LookFor$/ ) {  # true if $_ contains a matching file name
      ...
   }

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In reply to Re: Re: Regexp - exact matches by graff
in thread Regexp - exact matches by kingstonian

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