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Of course my previous post may be irrelevant, as Joost points out, Perl doesn't expand ~ anyway...

There are a few different ways to expand ~, if you need to:

Globbing - either <~madam> or glob('~madam') should both work, or you can look at File::Glob.
Regexp to replace ~ with $ENV{HOME} assuming $HOME is set (it almost always is) on your Unix environment. That only works if you're interested in the current user's home dir of course.
Some other module may do it - File::Spec doesn't but there are heaps of other modules under File:: on CPAN!

Hope that helps!

s^^unp(;75N=&9I<V@`ack(u,^;s|$.+\`|"$`$'\"$&\"$"|ee;/m.+h/&&print$&

In reply to Re^2: how to expand home directory ~ by muntfish
in thread how to expand home directory ~ by Madam

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