Brian Poellnitz wrote:
>
> The sample data below is read into a list, @dir_files. What I'd like
> to do is grep() the list so that I'm left with only files that end in
> ".wav" and contain certain string. The "certain string" is where I
> run into problems. Something like
>
> grep(/.*\.wav/)
>
> works fine for getting the items with .wav extensions. What I'd like
> to do is also filter for the existence of a string held in the
> variable $feed_date (In my test case, $feed_date = "9mar"). I've
> tried something like
>
> grep(/.*($feed_date).*\.wav/)
>
> but with no luck. My resultant list is empty. Can someone nudge
> (shove?) me in the right direction?
grep { /_${feed_date}_/ && /\.wav$/ } @dir_files;
John
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