Hi, I can't seem to figure out a way to open filenames with the '*' character in it. I have a general subroutine that looks like so: 
sub blah {
  my $file = shift;
...
  my $retval = open(FHANDLE, $file);
...
}

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But that always fails. I've also tried using e.g.: 
my $retval = sysopen(FHANDLE, $file, O_RDONLY);

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But that also fails. Is there any way to do this?

(And please don't ask me why I'd want to do this, or if I can just not do it, etc. Yes I really do, and I don't know why some users/software creates such horridly named files, but I have to process them nonetheless. :))

In reply to Opening filenames with special characters by Zadeh

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