Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Please advise what is best way to do this where I want a regular expresssion to check all pages instead of just pagehere.cgi: 
if $mypath =~ "mydirectory/dirOne/pagehere.cgi"
{
   print "results here";
}

#Now my attempt not working:

if $mypath =~ "mydirectory/dirOne/*.cgi"
{
   print "results here";
}

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Please advise because I think my reg expression is not correct or I am formatting it wrong?

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Re: Finding all pages in a path
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Sep 23, 2005 at 14:20 UTC 
    if ($mypath =~ m{(?:^|/)mydirectory/dirOne/pagehere\.cgi$})
{
   print "results here";
}

if ($mypath =~ m{(?:^|/)mydirectory/dirOne/[^/]+\.cgi$})
{
   print "results here";
}

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    (?:^|/)mydirectory
    makes sure we don't match
    notmydirectory

    [^/]+
    means "one or more of (not a slash)".

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