On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 9:21 PM, Greg London <[email protected]> wrote: > Two unrelated perl queries. > > First, I have a perl script that needs to pass in via command options a > filename that might include wildcards. This filename will be used by the > script at a later point, from a different directory, so I don't want Unix > to do wildcard replacement when I run the script. But I'd like it to look > like a wildcard so people are familiar with it and don't need to be > explained about it. > > I used '@' as my wildcard and then do a s/@/*/g at some point before using > it. It feels a bit klugey though. Is there a better way to do it?
That is very kludgey. I would suggest just making people put single quotes around the wildcard. That will be less surprising for experienced people. > Second, is there a built-in way to find the path to a perl module? I wrote > a subroutine that does a manual search through @INC, PERL5LIB, PERLLIB, > etc, but, again, it feels kind of klugey, and, again, I can't imagine I'm > the first guy to need to do this. Is there a built in way? After you use it, just look in %INC to figure out where it was found. _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
