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in thread Globbidy glob glob glob

Furthermore, check that the final glob pattern ("$file_directory/outgoing/$new_files*.txt") contains no spaces. The glob function, by default, treats spaces specially: it splits the string at spaces into one or more patterns. 

C:\>perl -w -e "print qq($_\n) for glob('C:\Documents and Settings\*')
+"
C:./Documents
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