$allfiles[$elem] =~ /^[\d\w\s]+\.$filetype/

I believe the problem comes from your regex. Its's searching for 1 or more occurences of 'd','\','w' or 's' in the filenames. Note that \d,\w,\s don't work in a character class. As a result, @files is empty.

$allfiles[$elem] =~ /^(?:\S)+\.$filetype/

You could replace it with something like the above,which checks for non-whitespace characters.

Update: Thanks for the lesson..It's 1:35 a.m. here and I'm getting goggy : )..To think that I've read through Mastering Regular Expressions some time back..

In reply to Re: Using Win32::OLE 'Excel' and stumped by Eureka_sg
in thread Using Win32::OLE 'Excel' and stumped by cacharbe

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