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How many files do you expect to find with

glob('/home/myfiles/day_of_year/'.$day_of_year.'/*/desired_file.txt');

Is it only 1 ?

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Re^6: Globbing for file in an unkown directory path only works first time in foreach loop?
by MarsRover (Novice) on Jan 29, 2016 at 20:52 UTC

    yes only one

    the directory structure looks something like

    /home/myfiles/day_of_year/255/data/JPF_374362/desired_file.txt

    /home/myfiles/day_of_year/256/data/EJF_264827/desired_file.txt

    /home/myfiles/day_of_year/257/data/FFE_387392/desired_file.txt

    where after the data directory there is a day specific ID (three letters, underscore, and then a bunch of numbers, all are unpredictable for each day) and within there is the file named desired_file.txt
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      In that case try adding (). I think your problem is that glob in a scalar context, makes it act as an iterator: 

      my ($info_desired_filepath) = glob('/home/myfiles/day_of
+_year/'.$day_of_year.'/*/desired_file.txt');

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