Apologies if this has been asked a lot. I tried several different searches but I don't think I'm searching the right terms.

I have a directory of log files without file extensions that I want to read data from. The directory consists of files starting with "R" and "D", I only want to read the files starting with "R" but am having trouble figuring out how. I am also having problems opening the files if they do not have a file extension. Here is what I have so far. 

opendir( DIR, $directory )
  || die "Unable to open directory - $!\n";
my @files = grep /\.txt/, readdir( DIR );
closedir( DIR );

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I tried replacing the /\.txt/ with /\./ but I get an access denied message.

To deal with the files starting with "R" I have tried using variations on glob, and =~R but it's not working. Thanks for any help and keep in mind that I'm new so please explain code that may be confusing to a rookie.

In reply to Reading specific files by molson

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