From the top of my head (since I can't see the code you're using to create the array of file_names_to_match -- which may be at the root of your problem):

  1. you have a chomp at line 9 that should probably be exercised whilst creating the file_names array.
  2. Have you checked the content of $filemask with a debugging print when first available? Also, is $filemask created using qr?

And, OT, unsolicited observation: your line 1 above has at least one problem: the single quotes around $directory in your homebrew error message will prevent Perl from interpolating the var. You may wish to use a more canonical form of the (wise!) attempt to check your conditional:

if ( ! -d $directory ) { die "No such \$directory, $directory: $!"; }

In reply to Re: Checking files in a directory by ww
in thread Checking files in a directory by Aim9b

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