How do I find a file whose name may be longer than the intended name?

I am doing some testing where I have a lot of files that I need to perform data analysis on. We have a naming convention with our files, but sometime someone will add a little more to the file name. I'm looking for a way to look for the "core" of the name and then save the entire file name.

For example, I want to find WIRA_Rabcd_RT, but someone may have saved th开发者_JAVA百科e file name as RED_GREEN_BLUE_WIRA_Rabcd_RT.txt, so my folder will look something like this:

RED_GREEN_BLUE_WIRB_Rabcd_RT.txt
RED_GREEN_BLUE_WIRC_Rabcd_RT.txt
RED_GREEN_BLUE_WIRA_Rabcd_RT.txt ← I want to find this file, and open it.
RED_GREEN_BLUE_WIRF_Rabcd_RT.txt
RED_GREEN_BLUE_WIRG_Rabcd_RT.txt
RED_GREEN_BLUE_WIRT_Rabcd_RT.txt
RED_GREEN_BLUE_WIRW_Rabcd_RT.txt
RED_GREEN_BLUE_WIRQ_Rabcd_RT.txt

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The glob function seems like it would do the trick:

my $dir = '/some/directory/';
my @files = glob($dir . '*WIRA_Rabcd_RT.txt');

# Make sure you get exactly one file, open it, etc.

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In Perl TIMTOWTDI so here is another way:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

my $dir = 'dirname';
my $pattern = 'WIRA_Rabcd_RT';

my @files;

{ 
  opendir my $dir_handle, $dir;
  @files = grep { /$pattern/ } readdir $dir_handle;
} #end-of-block autocloses lexical $dir_handle 

@files now contains the names of the files in the directory that matches the pattern. Note that the names are relative to that directory (stored as name not dir/name). I often then use the File::chdir module to change the working directory to $dir to work on those files. For example:

use File::chdir

# get @files in $dir as above...

{
  local $CWD = $dir;
  # work with files in @files
} 

# working directory restored to original here