Re^3: Finding if files exist when names randomly have letters in both upper and lower cases

use File::Glob qw(:globally :nocase);
if(<$file>) {
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Thou Shalt Not Use Scalar Glob Unless Thou Understandest Thy Problems Perfectly.

In layman's terms, your test will work "every other time" mysteriously.

In real terms, what's happening is that a scalar glob context is established on the first hit, and then reused on the second hit, so you'll get your filename, then undef, then your filename, then undef, then your filename. Ick.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker
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update: And it was also pointed out to me in the CB that this is a readline() call, not a glob() call, which really wouldn't have worked.

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