I was asked by a co-worker to write script to parse some XML files. Some of the options he came up with were,

1. Open a file in the current directory(easy enough).
2. Open files in the current directory(Use parsing on a splat, easy enough).
3. Open files relatively/abosolutely located in another directory using the splat(More parsing, that is annoying).

This is fairly common syntax so there has to be a module which handles this sort of request. I have no idea what to look for though. Suggestions?

Update: Just to be clear, this was about me getting the list of files form the command line for use in my script. Example:

#myprompt>parse_xml.pl foo/bar/*.xml
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