Wildcards not working

[mike]

I am trying to cd into a directory referenced by a value in a list with
wildcards like shell command
ls test* or cd test*

however nothing seems to work, I have tried amongst others

$dir9= system(ls $dir1.*\$);
opendir(DIRLIST,.);
$dir9=grep$dir1.*\$, readdir DIRLIST
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Re: Wildcards not working

[Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan]

On Oct 28, mike said:

I am trying to cd into a directory referenced by a value in a list with
wildcards like shell command

First get the value from glob():

  $value = foo*;
  @matches = glob $value;

Then work with the values in @matches.

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