I will answer your question below, but first, I strongly recommend not to use backticks to run shell commands for things you can do in Perl! For date/time handling, I prefer DateTime, but in this case you can probably just use the core module Time::Piece, plus the Perl builtin glob (Update: Make sure to read File::Glob, though, as it's got some caveats in regards to whitespace, which is why I use File::Glob ':bsd_glob' in the code):
use warnings;
use strict;
use Time::Piece;
use File::Glob ':bsd_glob';
my $today = localtime->strftime('%Y%m%d');
my $filename = glob('electric_inventory_WE_'.$today.'*.dat');
I wrote about backticks and the potential security issues with them here.
The problem you are having with the code you showed can be solved by looking at item 3 on the Basic debugging checklist (unexpected whitespace), and using chomp on those variables.
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