I know for a fact i got this to work sometime in my life. I remember doing it. But im beginning to think maybe it was a unix system because I cant seem to get to work on XP any help would be appreciated.

Simply trying to get all the file handles in the directory loaded into argv by using *.* to import all the file names.

c:>Program.pl *.* 

use threads; 
use threads::shared; 
use Data::Types qw(:all);
use Price_calc qw[ $stringsent $stringsentback @arraysent @arraysentba
+ck @arraysentprice @arraysentbackprice];
use IO::Tee;

# perl trackit.pl *.*

# =========================================  Set changables
my @threads;
my $maxthreadama=4;    # MAX NUMBER OF simultanous Lookup Calls
my $keepgoing="keepgoing";
my @trackinglist;my @trackingfilelist;my @datain;my $filename;


    foreach $file (@ARGV) {
if ($file =~ /txt/) {push (@trackinglist,$filename);}
                          }

print "@ARGV\n";

print "T1:@trackinglist \n";


system("pause");

[download]
T1:*.*

Anyone have a clue? I cant find a solution on google because * doesnt search very well and asterisk is some kind of software or coding platform. Did try before asking here though.

Does anyone know a cpan module to load all directory filenames into a variable? i can do it that way i suppose. But seems like perl should do this.

In reply to ARGV *.* importing problems by Monkomatic

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