pulling file name into perl

[Russell Boyd]

I am wanting to get a unix directory file listing and put it into a Perl array. I 
attempted

$date = system "ls -al | grep filename.txt";

However all this did was send it to <STDOUT>.

What am I missing?

Thanks,
Russell


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