I am trying to use unlink to delete files from a directory where are the file names are numerical. My problem is that I need to get rid of ones that are >=00000000000010001A001 and <=00000000000010174A001 - this is what I have so far - I assume there is a problem with the pattern matching ( I have not made it to the unlink part cause I cannot even get this to match) 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

opendir(MDSDIR,"/mds/nvision1");
while ( $file  = readdir(MDSDIR) ) {
    if ($file =~/0000*\./) {
        print $file;
        $temp = chop($');
        print "$temp\n";
    }
}
closedir(MDSDIR);

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any help would really be appreciated - cheers

Edit: chipmunk 2001-03-31

In reply to Pattern Matching by JSchmitz

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