true, but i thought globbing required csh? some platforms (heck, i've seen some unices even) fail on that. readdir + grep seems to work universally... or at least, until they make a worse universe. (:
hmm that would make sense. i was using 5.005 patch 3 i believe. at any rate, since playing with perl's grep, i now understand map much better now, so it's not a total loss. (: