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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 -- Sept 20 97. by Geoffrey C. Fox,Nancy McCracken,Tom Scavo
do "filename.pl"; or more generally do EXPR; # where EXPR returns a string which is taken as a filename
Perl executes contents of file specified by string
This is a good way of loading in a block of subroutines
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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