I'm not familiar with File::Glob but perl does have a built in glob which I have used it in the past.

Also I just looked at the docs for File::Glob and it looks like bsd_glob allows for flags which the built in glob does not. However the perldoc for glob notes this:
Beginning with v5.6.0, this operator is implemented using the standard "File::Glob" extension. See File::Glob for details.
In fact on my system (Perl v5.8.0, Slackware 9.1) glob matches the tilde in my username: 
[frink@truth]$perl -e 'print map $_ .= "\n" , glob("~frink/tmp/*");'  
+     
/home/frink/tmp/137-03.mp3
/home/frink/tmp/156-03.mp3
/home/frink/tmp/2004-01.pdf
/home/frink/tmp/2004-01.xls
/home/frink/tmp/audio
[frink@truth]$

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In reply to Re^3: ~username expansion by superfrink
in thread ~username expansion by Anonymous Monk

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