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Can't get my filename pattern matching working....can anyone help?!
Hi guys, I tried all your solutions thanks for the quick replies. I have the + in because I read in one of the perl books that leaving out the plus will result in the null character being matched every time before even matching one of the letters in the string. What does the 'qr' do?? because... -
Can't get my filename pattern matching working....can anyone help?!
Hi Prex1, here is my code, it has been wrecking my head all day, i have several of the perl books, but they just dont help. No-one else in my job knows perl. i want to only process the files that have the letters in $name at the start of the file name only, and no other files. Any ideas... -
Can't get my filename pattern matching working....can anyone help?!
Hi everyone, I am only new to this Perl programming world and I am having problems with the script I am writing. The program is supposed to search a number of specified directories for files with certain names or file type and that are older than 30 days and then move them to an archive...
