Re: Re: Pattern matching question

[linebacker]

Thanks for the response. I am still struggling but getting a little closer. Hopefully Time::Local can bail me out. Yes you are correct that I have to get the date from the filename. Net::Ftp won't let me to long listings. Ugh. This has been very frustrating. My lack of Perl style Regex is killin me. Thanks Mike

[Hofmator]

My lack of Perl style Regex is killin me.

If this is targeted specifically to your problem at hand here, try this: my ($month, $day) = $filename =~ /(\d\d)(\d\d)x86\.exe/;

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