I need to update a perl program that prints a hyperlink to an autocad drawing. The link will be based on a truck number that the user enters into an html page. That page then posts their entries to this perl script.

This page (cadsearch.cgi) uses another perl page (find_dir_all.pl) that returns a directory to search based on the truck number.

The issue that I am having is that I know only the first part of the directory to search due to inconsistent file naming habits. The first part of the directory will be returned to this program.

I need to be able to search for a directory that matches the first part of the directory name.

Example:
Joe User searches for truck number 12345.

I know that the directory will be something like:

BID.12345 Wanna B. Company
or
Quote.12345 Gonna Geta Truck

I know everything up to the end of the number and it will be a unique directory, but I will not know what the customer name added to the end will be.

How can I perform a search on a directory by using only the first part of the directory name? Below is the code that I must update, trimmed down for this posting: 
#!/usr/bin/perl
##!/opt/gnu/bin/perl
#/usr/local/bin/apache/cgi-bin/cadsearch.cgi
#push(@INC,"/cgi-bin");

require "cgi-lib.pl";
use File::Find;
use CGI qw(:standard);
use CGI::Carp qw(warningsToBrowser fatalsToBrowser);
use Socket;
&ReadParse(*input);


$truck=$input{"truckno"}; #ex: 12345
$searchtype=$input{"searchtype"}; #ex: bid
$dir=`/filesystem/scripts/find_dir_all.pl  $truck $searchtype`;
@dir=("$dir/$truck");
$file=$input{"filename"};
#set variable for new dwg convert web app
$dwgpdf="http://webserver/dwgbpdf/";
#variable for hyperlink
$hlink

# finddepth function to locate directory
for ($i=0;$i<=$#dir;$i++){
    finddepth(\&dwgWanted,$dir[$i]);
}

# wanted sub to locate files
sub dwgWanted{
    $hlink="$File::Find::name" if (/^$file.*$ext2.*/ );
    print $hlink
}

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In reply to using finddepth with part of directory name by jsons

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