It is something like this:

!#/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

use Net::FTP;

my $hostname = "sample-host";
my $ftp = Net::FTP->new($hostname);

$ftp->cwd("mypath");

my @cat1 $ftp->ls("h?_*");
my @cat2 $ftp->ls("*-zips");

print "category 1:\n", join "\n",@cat1;
print "category 2:\n", join "\n",@cat2;
<>;

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I think I must prefer globbing than regex since not all user that will use my program has knowledge in regex.

I have tried converting all * and ? into .* and .? respectively and use regex but before I finish coding it I thought about the "+" character which is a valid char for naming file or directory. It will be a problem when a file/folder contains a "+" char. since it is a special char in regex. And there are many other special char in regex which i don't want to make a code just to escape them all.

It seems that it will become complicated if i use regex. What should I do..?

In reply to Re^4: Get contents in an FTP path using glob by toastbread
in thread Get contents in an FTP path using glob by toastbread

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