in reply to Regex Question

I would look at File::Basename!


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Re^2: Regex Question
by LouM (Initiate) on Mar 10, 2008 at 16:39 UTC
    Thanks nefigah. That worked. Now, how do I read the directory for that file pattern within the script?

    Is there a link that explains all of the File:: functions?
      Well, I'm pretty new too, so not sure if this is the best way, but I would use the glob function as was recommended earlier, something like this:
      use File::Basename; my $dir = dirname($path); $dir .= '/*'; # Note: if the result of dirname already has the slash, +you only need to add the * while (glob $dir) { # this will loop through files in that directory, putting each filen +ame in $_ }
      You can check out perldoc -f glob at the command line or perldoc.org!


      I'm a peripheral visionary... I can see into the future, but just way off to the side.