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Hi Anonymous Monk,

as none of the proposals worked for me, I started wondering, why? The clue seems to be the text file, which serves as a reference. I created it by copying a coloumn out of an excel worksheet into a notepad file. After I created a new text file with perl your script worked perfectly well. It seems that "Copy and Paste" from microsoft excel has caused the trouble.

Now I will add the next step, which is copying the matching files into another directory

Thanks again

better

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