in reply to Re: Getting a List of Files Via Glob
in thread Getting a List of Files Via Glob

I considered this, but I'd have to return the original working directory at the sub, since other subs assume that the working dir hasn't changed.

I suppose I could save the original working dir with
$prevdir = `pwd`;
But executing the shell command doesn't seem like it would be much more efficient than mapping the directory name on to each glob and then chopping it off...

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RE: RE: Re: Getting a List of Files Via Glob
by chromatic (Archbishop) on Jun 25, 2000 at 05:41 UTC
    Use Cwd. It's a standard module. 
    use Cwd;

my $dir = cwd();
chdir $otherdir;
# do something
chdir $dir;

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