Hey y'all

Seeking wisdom of those that are wiser then I in the Perl world!

To skip the fmi ramble GOTO _MEAT_

A project I work on hasn't been taught how to wipe up after itself and always leaves a mess behind. Very annoying! (unfortunately that responsibility falls on a deaf (and possibly dumb) individual)

So I whipped up batch file for Win and a script for *nix, then got the brainy idea to multi platform it with Perl, considering Perl is required on the systems anyways it'll always be there!

However I find a peculiar difference that prevents me at my current Perl level to get past.

*nix Perl version 5.16.0
Strawberry Perl version 5.16.1
OS's various!

_MEAT_

It appears "-f" fails with wildcards, should it ??
It's always NOT found even though files meeting the criteria are in fact there.

I have tested the strings for line feeds and the like, they look perf.

Example: 

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

# File location: projects/myproj/
# File names: myproj.a, myproj_c.a
# This script is in the 'projects' directory.

my $Element = 'myproj/*.a';

# Actual use is like:
#   next if not (-f "$Element");

# Test use:
if (-f "$Element") {
  print "Found!\n";
} else {
  print "NOT Found!\n";
}

[download]

# FreeBSD script works ...
#!/bin/sh
Element='myproj/*.a'

if [ -f "$Element" ]; then
  echo Found!
else
  echo NOT Found!
fi

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rem Windows batch (cmd) works ...
@echo off

if exist "myproj\*.a" (
  echo Found!
) else (
  echo NOT Found!
)

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Ideas ??
Workarounds ??

Thanks all

-Enjoy
fh : )_~

In reply to File existance check failure by Festus Hagen

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