> If you have a question and get no response, PLEASE wait more than 90 > minutes before sending your question in again. Give it at least a day, > if not a couple of days. We're all volunteers here and expectations of > immediate responses are not reasonable.
Please forgive me! I've gotten more help here than I deserve, thanks to some really terrific guys. I only resent the email because I thought I'd sent it from the wrong account, and I hadn't seen it show up from the listserv yet. I certainly wasn't being impatient, despite how it may have seemed. >> I have a directory with around 20k files in it (input files to a >> simulation, if it matters). I've written a perl script that will >> build a run script for input files, but it doesn't work when I pass a >> certain limit... (I think it's characters, not number of files.) >> >> I'm using the: >> >> @files = <*.in>; >> >> ... notation with Perl 5.0. If I have too many files, @files ends up >> with nothing. Is there a way to read in all 20k names? > > Is that a typo, or are you really running Perl 5.0 (zero) ? That version > of Perl must be something like 15 years old by now. Please send the list > the output of a `perl -v` or `perl -V` to clarify this. Despite my nearly 3 years with perl, I'm definitely still a beginner! I had assumed that "revision 5.0 version 4" meant perl 5.0, not perl 5.4. Randal's solution I'm sure will be the preferred -- having our admin upgrade perl is much easier than rewriting my code. =) Thanks to all! - Bryan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
