Hello, You know in dos, you can search for a file by typing *.* or *.txt, using * as a wildcard? well, im trying to do the same thing with my perl script. I did atempt this and got this far: 
$file = $ARGV[0];
$find = $ARGV[1];
$replace = $ARGV[2];

@split = split(/\./, $file);
opendir(DIR, ".");

if ($file = /\*\.\*/) 
{
    @format = grep(/\./, readdir(DIR));            #    *.*
}
if ($file = ".\.\*")
{ 
    @format = grep($split[0]./\../, readdir(DIR));    #     test.*
}
if ($file = "\*\..")
{    
    @format = grep(/.\./.$split[1], readdir(DIR));        #    *.txt
}
if ($file = ".\..")
{
    @format = grep($split[0]./\./.$split[1], readdir(DIR));    #    te
+st1.txt
}

$file_count = 0;
for $file (@format)
{
...
}
...

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I cannot get it working quite right, i want the user to have the ability to use one of the following: *.* *.ext file.* file.ext Thanks a ton ~Cody Woolaver

In reply to Wildcards and Files by pyro.699

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