Pulling up files starting with specific letters

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

Trying to pull up all files that start with body such as:
body_data.cfm
bodyhere.txt
body_over.cfm

Please advise if this is the best way?

if ($subject eq 'body*')
{
   print "All body pages here\n";
}
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Re: Pulling up files starting with specific letters by Roy Johnson (Monsignor) on May 07, 2004 at 18:10 UTC
I think you want: `@body_files = glob('body*');` The PerlMonk `tr///` Advocate	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Pulling up files starting with specific letters by Sandy (Curate) on May 07, 2004 at 18:14 UTC
`'body*'` is a string that has a 'star' in it. It certainly is not a wild card. you must use 'matching' with regular expressions. `if ($subject =~ /^body/) { # do something }` [download] I suggest you scan the docs for how this all works, or check out some of the tutorials. Have fun.	[reply] [d/l] [select]