Question

I want to create a simple grep call in perl.
I have 2 variables.
$var1,$var2
and I want to get all the files that the name of the file starts with $var1 and the end of the file is $var2
what would be the syntax for a grep command in perl that does that.

Answer 1

Gets all file names in the current directory that start with $var1 and end with $var2:

my @matchingFileNames = <$var1*$var2>;

EDIT: To handle spaces and special characters as @Schwern and @ikegami correctly pointed out:

my @matchingFileNames = <\Q$var1\E*\Q$var2\E>;