glob & variables

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Re: glob & variables by Rich36 (Chaplain) on Jan 09, 2002 at 21:17 UTC
Yes. I just tried `perl -e '$var = ".lst"; print <$var>;'` and it worked fine. Rich36 There's more than one way to screw it up...*	[reply] [d/l]
Re: glob & variables by fuzzysteve (Beadle) on Jan 09, 2002 at 21:21 UTC
yes. I checked. 7 lines of code (so strict isn't needed. its a habit ok?) `#/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; my $var="/usr/local/apache/logs/"; my @file=glob("$var*"); foreach (@file){ print "$_\n"; }` [download] it prints out a list of files in the given directory.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: glob & variables by gav^ (Curate) on Jan 09, 2002 at 23:31 UTC
I was just wondering why you didn't think of trying? I often just run perl from the command line and try out a couple of lines of code to see what happens: `C:\>perl $, = ','; $var = 'a'; @test = glob("$var*"); print @test;` [download] It's a nice way to check things before putting it in a bigger script.	[reply] [d/l]