in reply to Loading an array with file names

* means one thing in filename wildcards and another in regexes. It does work in glob().

use Cwd; my $dir = getcwd; opendir DIR, $dir; my $filter = shift; $qfilter = quotemeta $filter; $qfilter =~ s/\\\*/.*/; $qfilter = qr($qfilter); my @regfiles = grep { -f ; /$qfilter/ } readdir DIR; seekdir DIR,0; @globfiles = glob($filter); closedir DIR; print "$_\n" for @regfiles; print "\n"; print "$_\n" for globfiles;
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