Improve perlfaq5: How can I translate tildes (~) in a filename?

[brian_d_foy]

Want to be a Perl contributor? It's easy. Just fix this FAQ answer. Update: An by update, I mean rewrite it, not tell me how to rewrite it. :)

perlfaq5 has an answer for "How can I translate tildes (~) in a filename?". Looking at the code in the answer, I know it must break in a lot of places since it relies either on getpwnam or environment variables. Who can come up with a good answer that is more robust? I'm especially interested in any module-fu that can be added. You don't have to necessarily keep any of the existing answer. If you replace the answer, you get your name listed right next to it. :)

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Here's the source (although you can get at the svn repository too by looking at the instructions in perlfaq:

=head2 How can I translate tildes (~) in a filename?
X<tilde> X<tilde expansion>

Use the E<lt>E<gt> (C<glob()>) operator, documented in L<perlfunc>.
Versions of Perl older than 5.6 require that you have a shell
installed that groks tildes.  Later versions of Perl have this feature
built in. The C<File::KGlob> module (available from CPAN) gives more
portable glob functionality.

Within Perl, you may use this directly:

    $filename =~ s{
      ^ ~             # find a leading tilde
      (               # save this in $1
          [^/]        # a non-slash character
                *     # repeated 0 or more times (0 means me)
      )
    }{
      $1
          ? (getpwnam($1))[7]
          : ( $ENV{HOME} || $ENV{LOGDIR} )
    }ex;