Thanks for your suggestions. Unfortunately File::File etc won’t work as we don’t want to change several 1,000 file specs ( sorry if some of the restriction seem arbitrary, but there are good reasons for them)

To be fair I don't understand your concerns since I don't have the slightest idea about what you mean with "to change several 1,000 file specs". I suspect that you, in turn, did misunderstood the suggestion about File::Find.

my $spec = ‘*_{process,read}_*’;

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Please use real single quotes: what are you using as an editor?!?

my @use;
for my $file ( glob $spec )  {
    $file = m/$reg/;
    push @use, $file unless $1 =~ /\+/;
}

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This won't work, since since {process,read} does not do what you seem to think it does, in a regex. You probably want

my @use=grep !/[^+]*?_(?:process|read)_/, glob $spec;

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But then you should be aware that you're duplicating your efforts, performing two very similar pattern matches one after the other. Although I'm a big advocate of glob whereas I often see people do unnecessary opendirs and readdirs, in this case I feel like suggesting you to follow that path...

I suppose in the end it was a PERL question after all.

No, it was not a "PERL" question, since there's not such a thing. Check

perldoc -q 'difference between "perl" and "Perl"'

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and while you're there, PERL as shibboleth and the Perl community.

In reply to Re^3: Glob filespec by blazar
in thread Glob filespec by bangers

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