Hi, diamondsandperls.

You're certainly not clueless, as you've mostly done this work yourself.

Sorry, but I didn't mean to confuse the issue by using __DATA__, but it was for example only (gives a source of the data for the script). So, you can use what you've already done like this:

use Modern::Perl;
use IO::Compress::Zip qw(zip $ZipError) ;

my %files;

my @files = <*.txt *.docx>;

for (@files) {
    next unless /^(\d+.\d+.\d+.\d+)/;
    push @{ $files{$1} }, $_;
}

for my $ip ( keys %files ) {
    do { print "Zip $ip -> $_" }
      for @{ $files{$ip} };
}

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Place your zipping call within the do{} block (replacing the printing placeholder), noting that $ip contains the common IP address and $_ contains the complete file name to be zipped.

ps Modern::Perl contains both strict and warnings.

In reply to Re^5: needing to zip files in a series that begin with the same IP address by Kenosis
in thread needing to zip files in a series that begin with the same IP address by diamondsandperls

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