Hi Monks, my web site is down and I can't figure out this problem:

I have an array with five file names which are:
11x0.htm
12x0.htm
1x0.htm
20x0.htm
8x0.htm


I have a variable called $THREAD, if thread equal "1" during a foreach loop I'm trying to use pattern matching to find the file that begins with 1, not 11, not 12, but 1 which in this case is "1x0.htm". The file at somepoint might be named 1x2, 1x12, ect. But the key is held in the $THREAD variable.

My pattern matching is not working:

I've tried everything, I thought this should work:

$THREAD= "1"
if ($filedir =~ /$THREADx*.htm/) {

Thanks in advance for any help.

Edited by Chady -- retitled from 'Emergency Help'

In reply to Regex for matching a file name by Anonymous Monk

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