Re^3: ARGV *.* importing problems

While it is true that the documentation says that, consider:

my @files = glob('C:/Program Files/*');
print "@files\n";
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gives:

C:/Program
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whereas:

use File::Glob qw(glob);
my @files = glob('C:/Program Files/*');
print "@files\n";
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gives:

C:/Program Files/7-Zip C:/Program Files/ATI C:/Program Fil...
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etc. ad nauseum.
This on ActiveState perl 5.12.3 64-bit Windows 7, but has been the same siince at least 5.6.0. I get similar results on Linux on 5.8.8.

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Re^4: ARGV . importing problems by choroba (Cardinal) on May 02, 2011 at 12:59 UTC
The documentation also says See File::Glob for details And if you do, you can see this: `## override the core glob (CORE::glob() does this automatically ## by default anyway, since v5.6.0) use File::Glob ':globally'; my @sources = <*.{c,h,y}>;` [download] But this piece of code does not behave like File::Glob::glob (namely, it does not call bsd_glob instead of glob). The question is: What exactly does CORE::glob automatically since 5.6.0 then?	[reply] [d/l]
Re^5: ARGV . importing problems by cdarke (Prior) on May 03, 2011 at 11:34 UTC
Good point, but this brings us back to my original comment that File::Glob is safer. Whether that is how it should be is another question altogether.	[reply]