I am using a config file to reference directories that are searched for files that are older than the number of days also listed in the config file. If any meet the criteria, they are gzip'd. I am attempting to use opendir to view the current directory being searched, followed by grep on the pattern specified in the config file identified as $pattern in my script. I'm kinda stuck on this and could use some suggestions or ideas. Thanks. 
opendir(TARGET, ".") or die "Can't open current directory: $!";
my @targets= grep $pattern readdir TARGET;
my $gzip_count = 0;
foreach my $target (@targets) 
{
    my $cnt = 0;
    if (-M $target > $expiration) 
    {
        $gzip_count++;
        $cnt = `gzip $target`;
    }
}

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Thanks si_lence, Your suggestion worked, and now I can move on. Appreciate the immediate response.

In reply to Opendir and regex by homer

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