Re: Is there a better way.

[tokpela]

I don't see the solution of pulling into an initial @files array scalable.

I would iterate over the directory handle - what if you want to search a directory that has thousands of files (ie lots of memory)?

my $caseNumber = $ARGV[0];
my $pattern = "(.*?)$caseNumber(.*?)";
my $count = 0;
my @uploads;

##Open logfiles directory

opendir DIR, "Directory" or die "Unable to open Directory, please try 
+again";

while (my $filename = readdir(DIR)) {

   if ($filename =~ /$pattern/) {
      my $filepath = "$directory/$filename"; # make full filepath
      push(@uploads, $filepath);
   }

}

closedir DIR;

$count = scalar(@uploads);

Also, I added the directory to the filename since I imagine that you will probably want to access the files at some point from the array.