note remiah <p> Hello RichardK. <br><br> glob fails silently as QM saids with my perl. How does this code say with your platform? <code> for (my $q =1; $q < 10000; $q++){ my @x = ( 'A' x $q, 'B' x $q ); my $glob = '{' . join(',', @x) . '}'; my $g = join(',', glob($glob)); if (length $g == 0){ print "fail silently, q=$q\n"; last; } } </code> Mine stops saying <pre> fail silently, q=511 </pre> perl -v <pre> This is perl 5, version 12, subversion 2 (v5.12.2) built for i386-freebsd-thread-multi-64int </pre> regards. </p> 999081 999146