Perl - [ Expression ]

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

my $var = 'LGMB-RP_06242011_HGWSI_1.fastq.sai.sam.bam.sort.bam';
if( $var =~ /^(.*)\.fastq/ ){
    $var = $1;
}
print"$var\n";

$var = 'LGMB-RP_06242011_HGWSI_1.fastq.sai.sam.bam.sort.bam';
$var = "$1.sam" if( $var =~ /^(.*)\.sam/ );
print"$var\n";


$ perl t.pl
LGMB-RP_06242011_HGWSI_1
LGMB-RP_06242011_HGWSI_1.fastq.sai.sam