Mukthar,
I am not sure I understood your problem, but let me give a try. The
user input a value for $MACHINE_TYPE and you want to test if there
exists a file "$first.trc.$MACHINE_TYPE" regardless of case in the
variable. This is it?
It depends: if the filesystem is case-insensitive (like in Windows),
-e "$first.trc.$MACHINE_TYPE"
would find it out for you, regardless of how the filename appears. If
you are in Unix which is case-aware, you may try a glob like
"$first.trc.*" that would match all your interesting files and more,
and then select the ones you care about. Like this
for (glob "$first.trc.*") {
print "FOUND: $_" if /$first.trc.$MACHINE_TYPE/i;
}
Adriano Ferreira
--
To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
