OK - I have gotten along much farther now with your help.

I am able to get the list of files from the remote server, and create a local text file with the 10 most recent files.

I just need a little more help. I need to apply a regex (I think) as part of the process, as I need the date and time section each of the 10 file for the next step.

I have this as my last section, giving me the last 10 files in the list:

open(FILE, "<filelist.txt");
@file = <FILE>;
chomp @file;
close FILE;

open (MYFILE, '>links.txt');

print MYFILE "$file[-1]\n";
print MYFILE "$file[-2]\n";
print MYFILE "$file[-3]\n";
print MYFILE "$file[-4]\n";
print MYFILE "$file[-5]\n";
print MYFILE "$file[-6]\n";
print MYFILE "$file[-7]\n";
print MYFILE "$file[-8]\n";
print MYFILE "$file[-9]\n";
print MYFILE "$file[-10]\n";

close (MYFILE);

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Can I add something to that, that will use this regex "\d\d\d\d\d\d\d\d\_\d\d\d\d" and print just the portion of the filename that matches for each of the 10 files.

I hope that made sense.

Thanks again everyone for your help!

John

In reply to Re: Remote Directory listing by johnfl68
in thread Remote Directory listing by johnfl68

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