There is a small issue with glob between Win32 and *nix. Consider a directory that contains files named "uc.DAT" and "lc.dat". Let's use this code to glob all files with an extension of dat on a linux box and a Win98 box (I don't have an NT box handy so YMMV).

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use Data::Dumper;

my @files = glob('*.dat');
print Dumper(\@files);

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Running this on linux yields this output:

$VAR1 = [
          'lc.dat'
        ];

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On Windows 98, you get the following:

$VAR1 = [
          'lc.dat',
          'uc.DAT'
        ];

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The problem here is that Windows is case insensitive, but case preserving. This could be a potential problem if you are expecting the same output from glob on both platforms.

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Coyote

In reply to Splitting hairs by Coyote
in thread filtering file names to be added to an array...maybe. by udigthis

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