[Omaha.pm] opendir, readdir vs. glob

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Subject: [Omaha.pm] opendir, readdir vs. glob
From: Jay Hannah <jay@jays.net>
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 21:22:35 -0500
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Ok, when glob is this easy to use why have I been using opendir andreaddir for years?


my @files = glob "/home/jhannah/*";

What could be simpler than that? Anyone out there using Perl onWindows? Does glob work there?


http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/glob.html

j

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