Hello all. i have this little snppet of code here: 
#libraries used are up above
my @dirs=("C:/jobs/writebacks"); #array containing directories that ar
+e being searched

  foreach my $dir (@dirs)
  { #look at each directory
    
    my @files=read_dir($dir); # read directory
    $dir =~  /[^:]\/(.*)\/$/;
    my $end_direct = $1;
    chdir("$dir"); #change back to the directory just read
 foreach(@files)
      { #steps through each file in the contents
        if ( /^(\d{5})$/)
          {
          my $file= $1; #assigns regex to the file name
          $file = $file."/$end_direct";
          DPSI::utils::mkdirR("C:\\FolderB\\$file");          
DPSI::utils::nCopy      ($_, "C:\\FolderB\\$file");           
          }#match bracket if statement
      }#inner for each
  }#outer

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$1 is not receving that value of the reg ex to apply to $end_direct. i am trying to get it read the subdirectory, in this case writebacks and paste it on the end of a new directory, say C:/new_dir/writebacks. anyone have any thoughts why this isn't working?

In reply to $1 not getting applied to reg ex by drum1981

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