After a bit of experimentation it is the final . character at the end of your filename that is causing the problems. This . is lost by Windows even if you make files by that name with a trailing period char. I had to write my own _glob sub to prove that - it did not work either although it should have. Looking at the filenames from readdir demonstrated the problem. The lost . is the key. You do not really need it anyway as it will match with the * if it was there which it is not.

open F, ">C:/development/project/dev/-71.95_41.0528." or dir $!;close 
+F;
open F, ">C:/development/project/dev/-71.95AAA_41.0528AAA." or dir $!;
+close F;
open F, ">C:/development/project/dev/-71.95BBB_41.0528BBB." or dir $!;
+close F;
open F, ">C:/development/project/dev/-71.95CCC_41.0528CCC." or dir $!;
+close F;

my $fname = "C:/development/project/dev/-71.95*_41.0528*.";
my @list = glob($fname);
print "I found " . scalar @list . " entries\n";
print "$_\n" for @list;


# lose the . at the end - Windows does!
my $fname = "C:/development/project/dev/-71.95*_41.0528*";
my @list = glob($fname);
print "I found " . scalar @list . " entries\n";
print "$_\n" for @list;

# this is how to roll your own glob but you don't need to!!!

sub _glob {
    my($dir,$file) = shift =~ m!^(.*?)([^\\/]+)$!;
    opendir DIR, $dir or die $!;
    $file = quotemeta $file;
    $file =~ s/\\\*/.*/g;
    $file = qr/$file/;
    my @files = grep{/$file/}readdir DIR;
    closedir DIR;
    $_ = $dir.$_ for @files;
  return @files;
}

# here is the output, note the CHANGE to the filenames!!!
# You can see we named the "file." but they end up being
# called "file" That's Windows for you
__END__
I found 0 entries
I found 4 entries
C:/development/project/dev/-71.95AAA_41.0528AAA
C:/development/project/dev/-71.95BBB_41.0528BBB
C:/development/project/dev/-71.95_41.0528
C:/development/project/dev/-71.95CCC_41.0528CCC
[download]

PS forward slashes / work fine as shown. Perl converts to Windows \ as required. Saves all the \\ stuff.

cheers

tachyon

s&&rsenoyhcatreve&&&s&n.+t&"$'$`$\"$\&"&ee&&y&srve&&d&&print

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