as already pointed out, glob isn't strictly supposed to find existing files, but rather to do filenames expansion. however, you can do this to get the result you expect:

@t1 = grep(-e, glob('*1'));
@t2 = grep(-e, glob('1'));
@t3 = grep(-e, glob('file2'));
@t4 = grep(-e, glob('*3'));
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cheers,
Aldo

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