Re^2: Using File::DosGlob::glob in loop only works first time

No reason other than uninformed DWIMmery. :-)

Thanks, your suggestion works perfectly in my real code. Changing the first line here (and leaving the second alone) to:

    unless ( -f  ( File::DosGlob::glob qq{"$template_file"} )[0]    ) 
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produces:

ftf2: 'file_a.txt'
ftf2a: '"file_a.txt"'
ftf2b: 'file_a.txt' is okay.

ftf2: 'file_b.txt'
ftf2a: '"file_b.txt"'
ftf2b: 'file_b.txt' is okay.


ftf3: 'file_b.txt'
ftf3a: '"file_b.txt"'
ftf2b: 'file_b.txt' is okay.

ftf3: 'file_a.txt'
ftf3a: '"file_a.txt"'
8251b: File check, cannot access 'file_a.txt', No such file or directo
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Re^3: Using File::DosGlob::glob in loop only works first time by japhy (Canon) on Feb 24, 2006 at 18:53 UTC
I guess my more important question is: why are you using glob()? Are these fileglobs or filenames? Why are you using glob() on something that's not a glob? Is it for some evil windows reason? Jeff `japhy` Pinyan, P.L., P.M., P.O.D, X.S.: Perl, regex, and `perl` hacker How can we ever be the sold short or the cheated, we who for every service have long ago been overpaid? ~~ Meister Eckhart	[reply]