Opening filenames with special characters

[Zadeh]

Hi, I can't seem to figure out a way to open filenames with the '*' character in it. I have a general subroutine that looks like so:

sub blah {
  my $file = shift;
...
  my $retval = open(FHANDLE, $file);
...
}

But that always fails. I've also tried using e.g.:

my $retval = sysopen(FHANDLE, $file, O_RDONLY);

But that also fails. Is there any way to do this?

(And please don't ask me why I'd want to do this, or if I can just not do it, etc. Yes I really do, and I don't know why some users/software creates such horridly named files, but I have to process them nonetheless. :))