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On Fri Sep 09 23:55:19 2011, sprout wrote: > On Fri Sep 09 22:58:37 2011, doug@somethingdoug.com wrote: > > This is a bug report for perl from doug@somethingdoug.com, > > generated with the help of perlbug 1.39 running under perl 5.12.3. > > > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > The currently bundled File::Glob will expand a tilde character > > to the current user's home directory. Now, the method this uses > > is to check the HOME environment variable (which is does not > > exist by default on Windows) and then using password file > > functions (which are not implemented on Windows). I am including > > a patch here that on Windows will fallback to expanding the home > > directory from the USERPROFILE environment variable, which exists > > by default on Windows and serves the same purpose as HOME. > > > > Here is a patch I have made to add this support. I tested it on > > Windows 7 and Ubuntu 11.04. It is based off the blead branch. > > Thank you. I’ve just pushed that to the smoke-me/tilde branch. And to blead as 528bd3c.Thread Previous