Re^2: bsd_glob does not reset $!

Hi all,
a few notes on the replies

GLOB_ERROR ... Of course I read the perldoc and I tried to use GLOB_ERROR. Unfortunately it is not set to a value other than zero when the globbing produced no result. When I introduce a print Dumper(GLOB_ERROR) after each call to bsd_glob it shows '0' in every case.
$! is not reset ... Right, it would be quite counterintuitive if it were reset. That was a stupid assumption of mine. But then, why is it reset with $pat4 in the above example??
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 $!

I am still trying to get this working. Any more pointers?

Following an old rule o' thumb: there must be something very dumb in my thinking or in my code, taking into account the amount of time I have already spent with this problem ;-)

Regards... stefan k

you begin bashing the string with a +42 regexp of confusion

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Re^3: bsd_glob does not reset $! by ikegami (Patriarch) on Sep 29, 2006 at 15:19 UTC
Unfortunately it is not set to a value other than zero when the globbing produced no result No matches is not an error. You could check for that condition explicitely. `if (GLOB_ERROR \|\| !@list) { ... error or no match ... }` [download] But then, why is it reset with $pat4 in the above example?? The value of $! is meaningless on success. It could be zero, non-zero, undef, etc.	[reply] [d/l]


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