in reply to pulling file names from your PC

perldoc -f glob will do what you want (specified in full as www.perldoc.com doesn't seem to be responding for me at least...)

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Re^2: pulling file names from your PC
by sh1tn (Priest) on Jan 11, 2006 at 18:07 UTC
    You mean glob, i.e. http://perldoc.perl.org.


Re^2: pulling file names from your PC
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jan 11, 2006 at 18:27 UTC
    www.perldoc.com has been down for a while. Use [doc://XXXXX], and will link to the relevant keyword on perldoc.perl.org. For example, [doc://glob] gives glob.