[svn:perlfaq] r11397 - perlfaq/trunk
[email protected] Tue, 10 Jun 2008 10:05:11 -0700 (PDT)
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Author: comdog Date: Tue Jun 10 10:05:11 2008 New Revision: 11397 Modified: perlfaq/trunk/perlfaq5.pod Log: * perlfaq5: How can I translate tildes (~) in a filename? + Instead of "recent", say Perl 5.6, which isn't recent anymore + This answer probably needs a nice rewrite Modified: perlfaq/trunk/perlfaq5.pod ============================================================================== --- perlfaq/trunk/perlfaq5.pod (original) +++ perlfaq/trunk/perlfaq5.pod Tue Jun 10 10:05:11 2008 @@ -613,10 +613,10 @@ =head2 How can I translate tildes (~) in a filename? X<tilde> X<tilde expansion> -Use the <> (glob()) operator, documented in L<perlfunc>. Older -versions of Perl require that you have a shell installed that groks +Use the E<lt>E<gt> (C<glob()>) operator, documented in L<perlfunc>. Versions of +Perl older than 5.6 require that you have a shell installed that groks tildes. Recent perl versions have this feature built in. The -File::KGlob module (available from CPAN) gives more portable glob +C<File::KGlob> module (available from CPAN) gives more portable glob functionality. Within Perl, you may use this directly: