Glad it helped
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ken Hammer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 5:26 PM
> To: Kipp, James; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Passing Wild Cards to System Commands
>
>
> Thank you James, that did the trick!
>
>
> "Kipp, James" wrote:
> >
> > try using the glob() function..
> > it does this nicely
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Ken Hammer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 4:54 PM
> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: Passing Wild Cards to System Commands
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi All,
> > >
> > > I'm trying to pass wildcards (*) to the
> > > system using the back quote method.
> > >
> > > For instance I want to list out a
> > > directory that contains a particular
> > > part of a string:
> > >
> > > $file = `ls file.*.$variable.txt` where the "*" can
> > > be any number of different charactors. Of course,
> > > I pass it the value of the "$variable", but when I
> > > run my script I get an error:
> > >
> > > file.*.123456.txt: No such file or directory.
> > >
> > > The "123456" is the value of $variable.
> > >
> > > I know I can use "opendir" and the like to scan
> > > through directories, but I would like to know how
> > > this could work. Escaping the "*" (\*) did not help.
> > > The "?" wildcard recieved the same treatment.
> > >
> > > Ideas?
> > >
> > > --
> > > Ken Hammer
> > > Information Technology Central Services
> > > University Of Michigan
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