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"David Shivak" (via RT) <perlbug-followup@perl.org> wrote: :Summary: glob returns initial argument string, only if no wildcards are :present in the glob argument. It happens in both scalar and list return :context. I think the problem here is one of documentation: `perldoc -f glob` refers one to File::Glob which says that: Since v5.6.0, Perl's CORE::glob() is implemented in terms of bsd_glob(). .. but doesn't how it calls it. In fact, it calls the (undocumented) File::Glob::csh_glob() instead, which does the extra argument parsing described before calling the same internal routine as bsd_glob(). You are probably best off calling File::Glob::bsd_glob() directly, with the particular set of flags appropriate to your needs. An alternative is to load File::Glob and set $File::Glob::DEFAULT_FLAGS (also undocumented, I'm afraid) to your preferred set of GLOB_* flags, and then use glob() in the usual way. As far as I can see, the results you are seeing are as expected for the default settings (GLOB_CSH along with GLOB_NOCASE on certain systems, for historical reasons of csh compatibility). Volunteers to improve the documentation are always welcome. :) HugoThread Previous