I can't for the life of me figure this one out.

I'm writing some code to search through a series of directories and return the name of the one and only .txt file inside each one. For some reason, though, my variable is only being set correctly every othertime the code runs. It doesn't matter if I search the same directory several times, or different ones. It always fails every other time. Here's a simplified version and its output on my system:

@paths = (
"//johnsp/dist",
"//johnsp/dist",
"//johnsp/dist",
"//johnsp/dist",
"//johnsp/dist",
"//johnsp/dist"
);

foreach $dir (@paths) {
    my $tmp;
    print "looking in $dir\n";
    $tmp = glob("$dir/*.txt");
    print  glob("$dir/*.txt"), "\n";
    print "set tmp to $tmp\n\n";
}

Output:
looking in //johnsp/dist
//johnsp/dist/x86.txt
set tmp to //johnsp/dist/x86.txt

looking in //johnsp/dist
//johnsp/dist/x86.txt
set tmp to

looking in //johnsp/dist
//johnsp/dist/x86.txt
set tmp to //johnsp/dist/x86.txt

looking in //johnsp/dist
//johnsp/dist/x86.txt
set tmp to

looking in //johnsp/dist
//johnsp/dist/x86.txt
set tmp to //johnsp/dist/x86.txt

looking in //johnsp/dist
//johnsp/dist/x86.txt
set tmp to

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Any guesses?

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