You forgot to escape the last dot and to make the ar. optional :-)
if ($file =~ /^\d{4}.*-www\.t(?:ar\.)?gz$/i) {
Oops! Thx :)
Now it matches either .tag.gz or .tgz as you intended. I don't think Jas needs that though.
I agree - it was just another way to look at the problem.
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