Hi all,

I am trying to make a script to delete all files in the current folder that match a certain pattern. I know that I can use if (-x filename) to check for file existence, and I know that I can use regexp to matcha filename against a pattern. What I do not know is how to combine the two together.
Right now I am using the following code to do the task (forgive me for C style code):

opendir(DIRHANDLE, ".") or die "Cannot opendir: $!";
foreach $fname (readdir(DIRHANDLE)) 
{
   if ((-f $fname) && (lc($fname) =~ m/se\d{4}ab/)) 
   {
      unlink $fname;
   }
}
closedir(DIRHANDLE);

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While the code does the job, I would like to find a shorter way to do it (and learn a bit more Perl as well). I would appreciate anyone pointing me in the right direction.

UPDATE Sorry, should have specified that i'm using the script in Win environment, so can't use shell...

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In reply to Delete files matching pattern by bofh_of_oz

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