Mandar, Grep will work in perl.. tho you could do it otherways..since you're asking about grep..i'll do it with grep...
I a sure you're familar with how to open and read a directory..etc..so I wont add that... here ya go @filesearch = (grep /[gG]/, @files) //the [gG] searches for any instance of g or G - etc foreach $filesearched (@filesearch) { print "$filesearched\n" } ~Eric On Tuesday, April 2, 2002, at 11:53 PM, Mandar Rahurkar wrote: > Hi, > I need to select particular files from list that looks like this : > > 2168a5_vow_band_1.fea > 169b2_vow_band_1.fea > 2168d6_vow_band_1.fea > 169g3_vow_band_1.fea > neutral.txt > > This is how the list if files look like.I need files with only g for > eg > I can do it in linux as follows : > but this doesnt work in perl : > ls ???[g][^1] *.fea > ls ???[^g][^1] *.fea > > I tried using : > exec(`ls ???[d][^1]*.fea > temp.neutral`) in perl doesnt work. > Please help... > > Many Thanks > Mandar > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax > http://taxes.yahoo.com/ > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]