Paul Johnson wrote: > > chad kellerman said: > > > > I am starting to work on a script that is going to process a few > > files in some users directories. I thought I would do some checking on > > the file to make sure they are there and to make sure they are really > > files. I thought it was going to be pretty straight forward, until I > > ran it for the first time. Sometimes the script sees the file for one > > user but not the next ( that I know is there)? > > I must be misunderstanding something small, but I can't figure it > > out. > > Can anyone offer any suggestions? > > You are using glob in a scalar context. This is not what you want. > > perldoc -f glob
Interestingly enough it works on my system. Scalar and list context both return the first file name from the glob. John -- use Perl; program fulfillment -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
