Hello bmcquill,

In addition to the references given above by GotToBTru, please see How-do-I-traverse-a-directory-tree of perlfaq5, and note that the module File::Find::Closures has a find_by_regex() method. For example (adapting the regex given above by aaron_baugher):

#! perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dump;
use File::Find;
use File::Find::Closures 'find_by_regex';

my ($wanted, $list_reporter) = find_by_regex( qr{ ^ messages (?:\.\d+)
+? $ }x );
my  @directories = ('test');

File::Find::find($wanted, @directories);

my  @files = $list_reporter->();
dd \@files;

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Output:

13:18 >perl 1226_SoPW.pl
["test\\messages", "test\\messages.1", "test\\messages.345"]

13:19 >

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Hope that helps,

Athanasius <°(((>< contra mundum Iustus alius egestas vitae, eros Piratica,

In reply to Re: Regex for files by Athanasius
in thread Regex for files by bmcquill

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