I have been wrestling with this one for 2 days now, trying to come up with a rule that works. Let me describe exactly what I'm trying to accomplish: 

my $dir = "/home/limo/Perl/2000/0827/steves/router/configs";
#new "yyyy/mmdd" are created daily 

"Enter date of config file using < yyyy/mmdd >: ";  
chomp ( $date_cfg = <STDIN>);
# date of file that user wants to process 

#code here which grabs the "2000/0827" directories: works fine
#code here that converts "2000/0827" to "08/27/2000" via s///
#stores it in "$new_date" for writing to STDOUT: works fine

print "Looking for Juniper router configuration file(s) from: $new_date\n";
Here's where my problem lies: I need the program to take the previous input from the user in "yyyy/mmdd" format, and plug it into $dir, and list files in the chosen directory. 

This bombs:

opendir(DIR, $dir/$date_cfg)  or die "Can't read from $dir/date_cfg: $!\n";


as well as:

opendir(DIR, $dir/$new_date)  or die "Can't read from $dir/date_cfg: $!\n";
The program lists directory files just fine, if I hard code the path; I'm just having problems passing the correct directory argument to the code.

In reply to Search for file using element of path as file name by Limo

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