I'm new to this forum.

This is my first post!

I have an issue what I am trying to get a list of filenames and filter out some filenames.

For instance in a subdirectory "temp" I have the following file names:

hello.pl
hTllo.pl
hVllo.pl
hQllo.pl

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I want to retrieve a list of file names but not include filenames with the second character of 'T' or 'V'.

In other words I want the file names:

hello.pl
hQllo.pl

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The code I've written is:

########################################################

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
my @{Files};
my ${FileName}      = "h[[^TV]]*.pl";
my ${f}             = "";

@Files  = <temp\${FileName}>;

printf ("\n##############[ ${FileName} ]####################\n");
foreach ${f} (@Files)
  { printf("${f}\n");

  }
printf ("##################################\n");

########################################################

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The response I get is:

##############[ h[[^TV]]*.pl ]####################
temp\hTello.pl
temp\hVello.pl
##################################

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The references tell me the '^' character is a NOT and should filter out the T and V characters... but does not.

Any suggestions?

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