in reply to grep question
Hi darrengan,
If you have a single filename then,
my ($match)=$file=~/(\d{4})\d{4}\.txt/;
If you have multiple filenames and you want to construct array of the results then,
my @a = map {/(\d{4})\d{4}\.txt/} @filenamearray;
Regards,
Murugesan Kandasamy
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