Shameem Ahamed wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am wondering how can i use the glob function to get only the first few
> files.
>
>
> I have files with digits as extensions. Like file.0, file.1
> file.2......file.100,file.101 etc.
>
> I want to select only the first 30 files.
>
> I used glob("file.[0-4]?[0-9]") but it doesn't seem to be working. The glob
> function trying to parse ? as separate, and matches all three digit
> extensions.
>
> How can i sort this out ?.
>
> Shammi
It's because glob() uses the shell expansion, not regex. In the shell,
? means any character. You could use a regex filter:
my @files = grep { /^file\.[0-4]?[0-9]$/ } glob( 'file.[0-9]*' );
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