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in reply to Perl globbing syntax with $variables?

@FILES = glob $WantedFiles;

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The diamond operator is dual-purpose - both read a line from a filehandle, and expand a file wildcard list. Where it's ambiguous which form you want, you have to tell perl explicitly.

Dave.

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