Re^3: No. files in folder

Indeed, this is IMHO another good reason to use glob instead. I thought it is never supposed to return qw/. ../, or are there osen where it does?!? I mean glob '*' of course. One can trim it to {his,her} own needs anyway. And if really need be, than the cure would be (fundamentally) the same.

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Re^4: No. files in folder by kaif (Friar) on Jun 23, 2005 at 15:03 UTC
No, `glob` can return `.` and `..` and nothing in the documentation seems to promise otherwise (I searched glob, perlop, and File::Glob). However, `glob("")` will not* return any dot-files, including the directories, because it works similarly to shell wildcards. Here's an example of where it does, though: `$ perl -le'$,=" ";print glob(".*")' . .. .bash_history .bash_profile # and so on` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re^4: No. files in folder
by kaif (Friar) on Jun 23, 2005 at 15:03 UTC

No, glob can return . and .. and nothing in the documentation seems to promise otherwise (I searched glob, perlop, and File::Glob). However, glob("*") will not return any dot-files, including the directories, because it works similarly to shell wildcards. Here's an example of where it does, though:

$ perl -le'$,=" ";print glob(".*")'
. .. .bash_history .bash_profile # and so on
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