monkfan,
Not only does your code not do what was asked for, I think it is broken. I believe both uses of glob in your while loop lead to infinite loops. I can't be sure as I don't have access to perl currently. Update: tye informed me this does work. This is because glob in scalar context doesn't create an iterator, it is an iterator. After re-reading I/O Operators in perlop I realized I was mistaken. I would still recommend spelling out glob over angle brackets to avoid confusion with readline.

Update 2: I am not sure why, but this still seems odd to me. Perhaps it is because I have less than 30 hours to wait before starting a 3 week vacation. I wonder how the following two examples would behave (i.e. how they are scoped): 

while (my $file = next_file()) {
    print "$file\n";
}
sub next_file { <*> }

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while (my $file = next_file()) {
    print "$file\n";
    my $next = <*>;
    last if ! defined $next;
    print "$next\n";
}
sub next_file { <*> }

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Cheers - L~R

In reply to Re^2: Easiest way to find all the Perl Modules on a system? by Limbic~Region
in thread Easiest way to find all the Perl Modules on a system? by Devanchya

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