Ronald, I would beg to differ. Glob can be a real mess. grep and readdir works on all platforms.

The forward vs backslash is not an issue. Perl'ers take note: always use "/" instead of some convoluted "\\" idea for a Windows path. Perl will translate the "/" into the right thing for Windows.

Update:
There are plenty of "old" Perl 5.6 programs out there! I skipped 5.8 and went to 5.10, so I don't know what 5.8 does. The glob mess that exists in 5.6 is gonna be around for a long time.

In reply to Re^4: Writing to file... by Marshall
in thread Writing to file... by perl_n00b

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