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You are probably thinking of glob constructs, which are different to regular expressions. In your example D:/Settings/* (not sure why you used //), "*" in globbing means a filename consisting of "zero or more of any valid character", whereas in a regular expression that would be ".*". The "*" is a quantifier, it quantifies the character, or group of characters, to its left. The dot "." in regular expressions mean one single character, whereas in globbing that would be "?".

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Re^2: Transversing thru dir using regex rather than a absolute path
by perlprint (Initiate) on Apr 12, 2010 at 09:58 UTC 
    $val="D:\\VmWare\\*";
find(\&print_name, "$val");

sub print_name
{
    push(@array_name,$File::Find::name);
}

foreach $val(@array_name)
{
print "$val \n";
}

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    actually i have more paths where u have * in middle of the path also.The output of above is giving as empty

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