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Foil 48 Some Further Perl4 and Perl5 Functions
-- do and glob!

From Perl5 and Advanced Perl4 Features Computational Science for Information Age Course CPS616 Material -- April 16,1996. by Geoffrey C. Fox
1 do "filename.pl"; or more generally do EXPR; # where EXPR returns a string which is taken as a filename
2 Perl executes contents of file specified by string
3 This is a good way of loading in a block of subroutines
4 glob EXPR returns the value of EXPR with conventional UNIX shell filename expansion
  • glob 'string' is equivalent to <string> where string has UNIX * wildcarding
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