$Bill Luebkert <> wrote:
> 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.
Good point.
>
> On UNIX, you could just do 'some/path/*.txt' and get a mask in
> instead of expanding the glob. Autoglob precludes that.
Well, any parameter that might contain a file-glob meta character. Yes,
if that is the sort of thing that you want to do then it would be wrong
to use Autoglob.
HTH
--
Brian Raven
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