note stefan k Hi all,<br> a few notes on the replies <ul>
<li><em>GLOB_ERROR</em> ... Of course I read the perldoc and I
tried to use GLOB_ERROR. Unfortunately it is <em>not</em> set to
a value other than zero when the globbing produced no result.
When I introduce a <code>print Dumper(GLOB_ERROR) </code> after
each call to <code>bsd_glob</code> it shows '0' in every case.
<li><em>$! is not reset</em> ... Right, it would be quite
counterintuitive if it were reset. That was a stupid assumption
of mine. But then, why <em>is</em> it reset with
<code>$pat4</code> in the above example?? <li>As to chromatics
question: Nah, I may be stupid but it's not that bad ;-) This is
not real world code it's just me trying to boil the problem down
to some small example. You are right, that I should have swapped
the lines dumping the list and dumping <code>$!</code> </ul> I
am still trying to get this working. Any more pointers? <p>
Following an old rule o' thumb: there must be something very
dumb in my thinking or in my code, t