From: Jonathan Stowe Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 14:39:43 +0000 (+0100) Subject: Re: [ID 20010625.003] perlfaq5 correction X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d6260402f46894f93a4378ad66e7f8648172b889;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git Re: [ID 20010625.003] perlfaq5 correction Message-ID: p4raw-id: //depot/perl@10927 --- diff --git a/pod/perlfaq5.pod b/pod/perlfaq5.pod index dde1fea..5061f69 100644 --- a/pod/perlfaq5.pod +++ b/pod/perlfaq5.pod @@ -469,7 +469,7 @@ whatever: Use the <> (glob()) operator, documented in L. Older versions of Perl require that you have a shell installed that groks tildes. Recent perl versions have this feature built in. The -Glob::KGlob module (available from CPAN) gives more portable glob +File::KGlob module (available from CPAN) gives more portable glob functionality. Within Perl, you may use this directly: @@ -569,7 +569,7 @@ C. People who installed tcsh as csh won't have this problem, but their users may be surprised by it. To get around this, either upgrade to Perl v5.6.0 or later, do the glob -yourself with readdir() and patterns, or use a module like Glob::KGlob, +yourself with readdir() and patterns, or use a module like File::KGlob, one that doesn't use the shell to do globbing. =head2 Is there a leak/bug in glob()?