Hi, Here find the piece of code im using.. pls tell me where im going wrong... i took all your advice and since glob din workout i did the last piece of code. here it is

#!/usr/bin/perl

$path = "path to the directory";
chomp($path);
chdir($path);
@lis = `ls`;

foreach (@lis)
{
if ($_ =~ m/^dump*txt$/) #say the file i want is dump_234_129_15.txt
{
print $_."\n";
}
}
[download]

here the @lis has all the different files in the directory... but the specific file is not fetched..