Rupert Heesom wrote: > > Can I assume that it's not possible to use grep in a Win32 perl script?
Yes it is. perldoc -f grep > I'm trying to filter the files that READDIR reads in from a directory. I > need to get one list of of TIFF files, and another list of all PDF files in > a particular directory. > > A textbook example of what I'm trying to do is - > > @allfiles = grep {$_ ne '.' and $_ ne '..' } readdir THISDIR; my ( @TIFFfiles, @PDFfiles ); while ( defined( my $file = readdir THISDIR ) ) { push @TIFFfiles, "$dir/$file" if $file =~ /\.tiff$/i; push @PDFfiles, "$dir/$file" if $file =~ /\.pdf$/i; } John -- use Perl; program fulfillment -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]