[perl #123691] Feature: A variation of glob() which uses regexps

On Wed Jan 28 10:39:13 2015, porton@narod.ru wrote:
> 
> This is a bug report for perl from porton@narod.ru,
> generated with the help of perlbug 1.40 running under perl 5.20.1.
> 
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> I suggest to add to Perl core a routine similar to glob(), but
> using regexps instead of globs.
> 
> 

But that functionality already exists, does it not?

(untested)
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opendir my $DIR, 'some/directory' or die;
my @files = grep { m/some_pattern/ } readdir $DIR;
closedir or die;
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-- 
James E Keenan (jkeenan@cpan.org)

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https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=123691

• [perl #123691] Feature: A variation of glob() which uses regexps by perlbug-followup
• Re: [perl #123691] Feature: A variation of glob() which uses regexps by Victor Porton
• Re: [perl #123691] Feature: A variation of glob() which uses regexps by Ricardo Signes
• [perl #123691] Feature: A variation of glob() which uses regexps by James E Keenan via RT
• Re: [perl #123691] Feature: A variation of glob() which uses regexps by Eric Brine
• [perl #123691] Feature: A variation of glob() which uses regexps by James E Keenan via RT