Re: get list of files matching part of file name

[RichardK]

in reply to get list of files matching part of file name

you didn't say what you expect your code to do, so it difficult to offer any useful suggestions, other than glob('sample*.txt')

Maybe my @files = glob (".* *") doesn't do what you think it does?

see glob

[doubledecker]

I used glob to list all the files in my current directory and using those list of files i'm trying to find out matching files in other directory

[Athanasius]

A couple of points:

(1) In the foreach loop, $file contains a filename together with its path and extension. To extract just the name part, you need something like:

(my $basename = fileparse($file)) =~ s/ \. .* $ //x;

which uses the fileparse function from File::Basename to extract the filename, then removes the extension (if any).

(2) print Dumper(@matches); will print each match on a separate line. You would probably be better off with something like this:

printf "'%s' matches: %s\n", $basename, join(', ', @matches);

HTH,