On Jun 6, David Blevins said:
> my @list1 = grep(/$year\_$month\_.*01\.txt/, @allFiles);
> my @list2 = grep(/$year\_$month\_.*01a\.txt/, @allFiles);
It is safer to use ${year} than $year\_ because there are some letters
which, if backslashed, have entirely different meanings.
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