Hello Monks,

I'm really not sure how to do this at all, I need to be able to compare the input from a user to files in a directory. Basically I have files in /Users/johnsmith/data, how do I take the user input from my script and determine if it matches the file name in that directory.

Example:

File name in the /Users/johnsmith/data drectory is 1234.tar.Z My Script So far: 

#!/usr/bin/perl

$fname = "empty";

while ($fname ne '/Users/johnsmith/data/$fname*'){
       print "Please enter Filename: ";
       chomp($fname = <STDIN>);

if ($fname ne '/Users/johnsmith/data/$fname*'){
   print "File does not exist.\n\n";
   print "Please enter Filename: ";
}
}
print "I have found this $fname in your directory\n\n";

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I know this is not correct and I can not figure out how to get this to work in Perl. Any help you could provide is greatly appreciated.

In reply to How to compare User Input to a file Name by rqatar2003

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