Passing dynamic variable inside <>

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi ,
I am using following simple code

while(<c:/abc/*>)
{
   print;
}
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I don't want "c:/abc/* to be hardcoded
Please post your comments
Thanks in advance

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Re: Passing dynamic variable inside <> by ikegami (Patriarch) on Nov 04, 2004 at 05:09 UTC
`$spec = 'c:/abc/*'; while (glob($spec)) { print; }` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Passing dynamic variable inside <> by Anonymous Monk on Nov 04, 2004 at 05:28 UTC
Thank you very much It worked!!!!!!!!!!!!! I used following $currentpath='c:/abc/*'; foreach (glob($currentpath)) { print; }	[reply]
Re: Passing dynamic variable inside <> by gaal (Parson) on Nov 04, 2004 at 05:10 UTC
See the standard module File::Glob. You do mean glob, right? Not `<>` in the sense of readline?)	[reply] [d/l]