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I was asked by a co-worker to write script to parse some XML files. Some of the options he came up with were,

  1. Open a file in the current directory(easy enough).
  2. Open files in the current directory(Use parsing on a splat, easy enough).
  3. Open files relatively/abosolutely located in another directory using the splat(More parsing, that is annoying).

This is fairly common syntax so there has to be a module which handles this sort of request. I have no idea what to look for though. Suggestions?

Update: Just to be clear, this was about me getting the list of files form the command line for use in my script. Example:

#myprompt>parse_xml.pl foo/bar/*.xml

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Re: Command Line Open Files
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Sep 14, 2009 at 23:05 UTC

    In unix, this is already done by the shell 

    $ perl -le'print for @ARGV' a.xml
a.xml

$ perl -le'print for @ARGV' *.xml
a.xml
b.xml

$ perl -le'print for @ARGV' foo/*.xml
foo/x.xml
foo/y.xml

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    To handle Windows too, you just need to add the following code to your script: 

    BEGIN {
    if ($^O =~ /MSWin32/) {
        require File::Glob;
        @ARGV = map File::Glob::bsd_glob($_), @ARGV;
    }
}

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      I am glad I asked, I did not even know about that.

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