Re: Is there a better way.

[Roy Johnson]

in reply to Is there a better way.

@uploads = grep /$pattern/, @files;
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[Anonymous Monk]

Thanks I will give that a try.

[afresh1]

The way I normally do this is similar, but skips using the temporary @files array.

opendir my $dh, $dir or die "Unable to opendir [$dir]: $!";
my @uploads = grep /$pattern/, readdir ($dh);
closedir $dh;

Sometimes I will add a map { "$dir/$_" } between = and grep, but it depends on the use.