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Thanks Tintin champion.<br />
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S
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Hi guys!<br />
<br />
Hope you can help.<br />
<br />
I want to, through perl, do the following....<br />
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Find a particular file.<br />
The file is: &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; sdat*.zip<br />
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The path is: c:\sdat*.zip<br />
where sdat could be sdat&lt;any number or numbers&gt;.zip<br />
eg.sdat328.zip, sdat542.zip, any number at all.<br />
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I want to be able to:<br />
a) Determine if sdat*.zip exists (if -e)<br />
b) Read the filename (not read its contents), but the name of the file into a variable, minus the dot and file extension, and minus the sdat part, so only the number is to go into a variable.<br />
c) Compare this number against another eg.5000<br />
d) blah blah.<br />
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Basically, its just the first 2 parts i need help with.<br />
<br />
Any help greatly appreciated.<br />
<br />
S<br />
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Hi guys!

Hope you can help.

I want to, through perl, do the following....

Find a particular file.
The file is:         sdat*.zip

The path is: c:\sdat*.zip
where sdat could be sdat<any number or numbers>.zip
eg.sdat328.zip, sdat542.zip, any number at all.

I want to be able to:
a) Determine if sdat*.zip exists (if -e)
b) Read the filename (not read its contents), but the name of the file into a variable, minus the dot and file extension, and minus the sdat part, so only the number is to go into a variable.
c) Compare this number against another eg.5000
d) blah blah.

Basically, its just the first 2 parts i need help with.

Any help greatly appreciated.

S



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