### I would use opendir, a for-loop on readdir and then select:
opendir (D_E, ":"); ## or whatever is my path of desire
for (readdir(D_E)) {
if (m,(\w),) { ## or whatever is my selection criterion
print "\n This file: \"$_\" does contain ".
" at least one alphanumeric letter, e.g.: \"$1\"";
} }
### HTH,
### Detlef
=Martin Buchmann wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> i think i just need an idea or a function's name, respectively. I
> want the user to select a folder with the StandardGetFolder Dialog,
> that's easy and working but than i want my script to get all files in
> that folder which have a specific name, say /^result\d{3}/.
>
> I'm sure this is easy done but i don't know how 8-) Is there a
> function which returns a list of specific files in a given directory?
> I checked the MacPerl book and the file related pods quickly but
> found nothing.
>
> Any ideas will be apreciated.
> Martin
>
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> "355/113 -- Not the famous irrational number PI, but an incredible simulation!"
