Angle_brackets don't work that way.

To get an array of filenames, see open, opendir Duh! Sorry, readdir, or any number of threads here (hint: Super Search with terms like "dir files" or similar).

Of course, you could make your list with

ls -la /dirpath/dir/ > file_of_names
    or
dir /a /dirpath/dir/ > file_of_names
But this is, after all, a perl forum.

Moving on, your regex would (if the script worked) catch files with names like pqr.cobol so you might consider this:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use Modern::Perl;
use Diagnostics;

my (@file, $file, $filename);

@file = <DATA>;

for $file (@file) {
    if($file =~ /\.c$/i) { # match only filenames ending in ".c" or ".
+C"
        $filename = $file;     
        print "$filename\n";            
    }
}

__DATA__
bzz.c
bzz.doc
pqr.cobol
xyd.foo
123.1c
def.C
foo.endswithC

[download]

For the record, though, your regex does achieve a good many proper exclusions

bzz.doc             \
123.1c               # not matched by your regex, ++
foo.endswithC /
Update: fixed brain-fart in para 1

In reply to Re: Loop Break by ww
in thread Loop Break by stallion

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