Hello Experts, I am new to perl programming and facing a few issues related to perl regular expressions. I need to apply a condition logic only if my $filename is something like: $filename =._foo.xml #Any file that starts with ._" For such files,I need to overlook the content of the file. while( ($fileName = readdir(DIR))) { next if ($fileName eq "^\._.*"); However I think this regular expresion is not able to filter the filenames based on the criteria. I shall be highly obliged if anyone can please help.