Re^5: Looking up elements of an array in another array!

[tobyink]

I'd suggest:

my $a_ext=quotemeta($a).$ext;

... because this will cope better when $a contains "special" characters such as "[" or "+".

[better]

Thanks, this might help with my problem reported in the last update. I go and try.

better

[better]

No, it doesn't. I will have to replace the brackets.

[better]

This code will do

foreach my $id (@ids) {
        #Replace brackets with underscore
        $id=~s/</_/;
        $id=~s/>/_/;
        
        #declare regex pattern
        my $ext = "[^0-9]*\.jpg";
        my $a_ext=quotemeta($id).$ext;