I have been burnt by glob in the past. I can no longer recall what I did (wrong)?, but I wound up with filenames containing spaces split across seperate elements of the returned array.

Older versions of person require spawning a child process to an external command (tcsh) in order to perform the glob. This may be a cost too high to bear.

Truly, opendir/readdir/closedir are your friends ;).

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