[Omaha.pm] strange file exists behavior

[Jay Hannah]

I don¹t think the file test operators do globbing. You can use glob()
instead if you want.

if (! glob(³$target_path/$filename")) {
   next;
}

perldoc ­f glob

HTH,

j



On 8/14/08 7:54 AM, "Sean Baker" wrote:

> Does anyone have any clue why my ³-e² check is saying file does not exist and
> dropping me into the ³next;² statement?  It doesn¹t like asterisks?  It works
> fine when I use the entire file name.
>  
>  
> main::(usw_response_by_min.pl:47):         `scp lb1:$source_path/$filename
> $target_path`;
>   DB<3> n
> main::(usw_response_by_min.pl:48):         if (! -e "$target_path/$filename")
> {
>   DB<3> n
> main::(usw_response_by_min.pl:49):            next;
>   DB<3> p "$target_path/$filename"
> /datamining/usw_log/ban*trans-20080813*
>  
>  
> pbaker at omares-etl:/datamining/usw_log> ls
> /datamining/usw_log/ban*trans-20080813*
> /datamining/usw_log/banana_slicer.pl-trans-20080813.gz
>  
>  


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