I have a program that gets its info from a config file, that config file names other files within it. I would like to be able to use file name globbing in the config file. This will allow me to put one entry into the file instead of >100.

The problem I have is when I am parsing the config file. I am checking each entry to see if it is valid or not before acting on it. Here is a psuedo code example: 

$fileGlob = /var/adm/messages.*;

for (< $fileGlob >){
  do some things to check each file....
}

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This works fine, the problem comes in when there is a typo or a non-existant file is entered in the config file. If the glob does not evaluate to an existing file/s on the system the code block does not execute.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

TIA, Chad.

In reply to testing a file glob by gnu@perl

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