Brian Raven wrote:
> Any one of the three methods used in the OP's script to expand a
> filename pattern would have been adequate (if used correctly), including
> Autoglob.
Not if you want to pass in a mask. Autoglob won't let you.
>>>>foreach my $filemask (@ARGV){
>>
>>@ARGV should have been emptied into @filemasks using my method or the
>>global $filemask was unecessary using this method. Assuming that
>>@filemasks already has the masks from above, you could use something
>>like:
>>
>>my @myfile;
>>push @myfile, glob $_ foreach (@filemasks);
>
>
> This is pretty much what Autoglob does.
Except you don't have a choice since autoglob automatically does
it - you can't control when it does it or on which args.
On UNIX, you could just do 'some/path/*.txt' and get a mask in
instead of expanding the glob. Autoglob precludes that.
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