Re^5: Piping many individual files into a single perl script

provided that does it conform to the standard behaviour on the given OS.

Perl's glob is platform independent. It behaves the same on all platforms.

if e.g. glob() breaks when a space is present

It's done that way to allow glob('*.h *.c'), but I called it broken since patterns are usually already separated into multiple calls to glob. bsd_glob is identical to glob except for the difference in the treatment of spaces.

under Windows, it's not defined at all, being left to each individual application

They usually delegate to the FindFirstFile system call. Perl has File::DosGlob which resembles FindFirstFile.

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Re^6: Piping many individual files into a single perl script by blazar (Canon) on Oct 11, 2008 at 19:47 UTC
provided that does it conform to the standard behaviour on the given OS. Perl's `glob` is platform independent. It behaves the same on all platforms I personally believe that it is case sensitive under unices and case insensitive under Windows, for one thing. While I had naively and erroneously assumed this (along with other details!) was implemented with a selective loading of system specific modules, much like File::Spec does, or more simply by inserting the suitable sub out of a set into `CORE::GLOBAL::glob` while it is much more simply and reasonably* controlled by means of a single variable, I would definitely call that a different behavious across platforms. It's done that way to allow `glob('.h .c')`, but I called it broken since patterns are usually already separated into multiple calls to `glob` Actually, I see your point now, but I wouldn't go as far as calling it broken. under Windows, it's not defined at all, being left to each individual application They usually delegate to the `FindFirstFile` system call. Perl has File::DosGlob which resembles `FindFirstFile` Thank you for sharing this, I didn't know. `--` If you can't understand the incipit, then please check the IPB Campaign.	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re^6: Piping many individual files into a single perl script
by blazar (Canon) on Oct 11, 2008 at 19:47 UTC

provided that does it conform to the standard behaviour on the given OS.

Perl's glob is platform independent. It behaves the same on all platforms

I personally believe that it is case sensitive under unices and case insensitive under Windows, for one thing. While I had naively and erroneously assumed this (along with other details!) was implemented with a selective loading of system specific modules, much like File::Spec does, or more simply by inserting the suitable sub out of a set into *CORE::GLOBAL::glob while it is much more simply and reasonably controlled by means of a single variable, I would definitely call that a different behavious across platforms.

It's done that way to allow glob('*.h *.c'), but I called it broken since patterns are usually already separated into multiple calls to glob

Actually, I see your point now, but I wouldn't go as far as calling it broken.

under Windows, it's not defined at all, being left to each individual application

They usually delegate to the FindFirstFile system call. Perl has File::DosGlob which resembles FindFirstFile

Thank you for sharing this, I didn't know.

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