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in thread Recursive search

As file names can contain anything but a slash, match anything but a slash - i.e. [^/]+ - between the last directory separator and .plf: 

    if ($line =~ m|/([^/]+\.plf$)|) {

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Re^13: Recursive search
by perl_mystery (Beadle) on Dec 17, 2010 at 23:49 UTC

    doesn't seem to work with $ at the end

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      you don't say :)
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        :)How do I open a filehandle on some other directory?I want to open the plf on some other directory ,not on the cwd.I know there is opendir and readir but how do I fit in the below code 

        
open my $fh, '<', $plf or die "could not open '$plf' $!";

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