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You can use regular expression to filter your &quot;files&quot; array.<br />

<pre><code id="code-106112">@files = grep ( /jpg|gif|psd/i, &lt;$in/*&gt;);</code></pre>
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You can use regular expression to filter your "files" array.


@files = grep ( /jpg|gif|psd/i, <$in/*>);

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Thanks, Ozo's solution was exactly what I was after. I am sure the grep works just as fine too but i prefer the syntax of the other.<br />
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thanks to you both.
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Thanks, Ozo's solution was exactly what I was after. I am sure the grep works just as fine too but i prefer the syntax of the other.

thanks to you both.

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Note, that second solution is case sensitive.
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Note, that second solution is case sensitive.

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I use the following code to read a list of contents from a directory<br />
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@files = &lt;$in/*&gt;;<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;foreach (@files) {<br />
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; }<br />
[/code]<br />
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I know it's easy to filter one file type by placing the extension after the * but I would like to filter a list of file types but cannot figure out how to do it.<br />
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i.e. filter a list of picture files (jpg, gif, psd, etc).
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I use the following code to read a list of contents from a directory

[code]
@files = <$in/*>;
	foreach (@files) {
        }
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I know it's easy to filter one file type by placing the extension after the * but I would like to filter a list of file types but cannot figure out how to do it.

i.e. filter a list of picture files (jpg, gif, psd, etc).

read and filter directory contents

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