Re^2: Using File::DosGlob::glob in loop only works first time

[ff]

No reason other than uninformed DWIMmery. :-)

Thanks, your suggestion works perfectly in my real code. Changing the first line here (and leaving the second alone) to:

    unless ( -f  ( File::DosGlob::glob qq{"$template_file"} )[0]    ) 
+{

produces:

ftf2: 'file_a.txt'
ftf2a: '"file_a.txt"'
ftf2b: 'file_a.txt' is okay.

ftf2: 'file_b.txt'
ftf2a: '"file_b.txt"'
ftf2b: 'file_b.txt' is okay.


ftf3: 'file_b.txt'
ftf3a: '"file_b.txt"'
ftf2b: 'file_b.txt' is okay.

ftf3: 'file_a.txt'
ftf3a: '"file_a.txt"'
8251b: File check, cannot access 'file_a.txt', No such file or directo
+ry

[japhy]

I guess my more important question is: why are you using glob()? Are these fileglobs or filenames? Why are you using glob() on something that's not a glob? Is it for some evil windows reason?