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Hi John, I picked up the Perl book last week so all of your whys will get one answer. "Because that the way I thought it would work!"
There are a *lot* of Perl books out there. Which one in particular did you pick up?
perldoc -q "How do I find yesterday.s date" : This is cool I didn't realize I could do this (FAQ keyword). Of course I haven't got into man perldoc to much either. CHOMP: I still trying to figure out CHOMP. The way I understand it it is used remove new lines \n.
chomp() removes whatever the contents of $/ (Input Record Separator) is, if $/ contains a non-zero length string. Normally $/ contains the string "\n" but it can be set to any string including '' (paragraph mode.)
File Open Verification: I get that. By using something like or die "Cannot open $blahblah: $!";
Yes, you had done that with opendir() and it is good practice to verify all perl functions that work with the file system or operating system.
Yep. I missed the escape character in the regex.... /file\.zip/ Yes. I will know what the files names are in advance.. I guess I was caught up learning (I wanted to open a directory and read the contents) and didn't think simplicity. I will try your code out. It looks so much easier... P.S. Thanks Chris for your initial comments. It's all helpful to me at this point.
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