Re: [MacPerl-Porters] @ARGV and droplets, sorry

At 00:27 +0100 2001.12.04, Axel Rose wrote:
>$ARGV[0] is ok in the bug report "@ARGV and droplets".
>It looks like glob() does the unwanted splitting.

It is not unwanted ... it's the way it works.  :-)  Read the File::Glob docs.

>Since v5.6.0, Perl's CORE::glob() is implemented in terms of bsd_glob().
>Note that they don't share the same prototype--CORE::glob() only accepts
>a single argument.  Due to historical reasons, CORE::glob() will also
>split its argument on whitespace, treating it as multiple patterns,
>whereas bsd_glob() considers them as one pattern.

So, try:

	use File::Glob 'bsd_glob';

	# ...

	bsd_glob("$ARGV[0]*");

Of course, if you have any characters like ? or * in your path, that messes
it up, too.

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