This doesn't really answer your question, but you may want to check out File::Find which addresses this problem space.

I'm not sure what problem you are having with the use of a scalar as a regex -- the following code snippet seems to work for me:

use strict;
use warnings;
my $exten = "(\\\.txt|\\\.csv)";
my @files = ('one.txt', 'two.html', 'three.csv', 'four.log');
foreach (@files) {
  if (/$exten/i) {
    print $_, "\n";
  }
}

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... and the output:

one.txt
three.csv

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Update: I concur with prasadbabu below, in that the judicious use of anchors can help your regex be more faithful to your intentions. Also, as davorg has noted, the main problem with your regex was the leading '|' character (which I assumed was a typo). As you probably know, the pipe character serves the function of 'or' within a regex.

Update 2: Fixed problem with backslashes and case insensitivity, as noted by ikegami. I wasn't sure about the OP's intention, so left out the anchor deliberately.


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In reply to Re: how to get the String as regularexpression by ptum
in thread how to get the String as regularexpression by arunmep

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