My work site has a Perl script that Recognizes File Name Patterns in an Angle Operator in a While Loop Condition. Here's the code:

while (<$$Config{ldir}/$$Config{lfile}>)

This means that if a $$Config{lfile} is *.gpg and there's a star.gpg in $$Config{ldir}, then $_ will iterate as star.gpg. But I can't replicate this in a new script, for example:

while (<"/export/home/usps_edi/*pl">) 
{ -f $_ && print "ok\n";}'

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And I've run the new script with all the modules use'd by the old script:

use EDI::Config;
use POSIX qw(uname);
use File::Copy;
use File::Basename;

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(EDI::Config is a local module.) What do I need to do to get the magic of the old script to work with the new script?

In reply to Recognizing File Name Patterns in an Angle Operator in a While Loop Condition by johnarky

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