Re: regex question matching dates

John W. Krahn wrote:
Richard Lee wrote:

@array = qx#ls -tr $directory/$ARGV[0]*#;

Why not do that directly in perl:

@array = map $_->[0], sort { $a->[1] <=> $b->[1] } map [ $_, -M ], glob "$directory/$ARGV[0]*";

Sorry, that should be:

@array = map $_->[0], sort { $b->[1] <=> $a->[1] } map [ $_, -M ], glob "$directory/$ARGV[0]*";



John
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