On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 11:03:23AM -0700, Jon wrote:
> My problem is, I want to do this for a bunch of different patterns (ex.
> ".txt", ".this", ".that").
You could say <*.txt *.this *.that>, or you can use opendir, readdir, and a
regex (perhaps grep).
> How can I make what is inside the angle brackets a variable?
You don't, it can confuse Perl and users having to look at your code. Use
glob() instead of angle brackets, in this case.
$pats = "*.txt *.this *.that";
print join("\n", glob($pats);
Michael
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