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Asked: 2026-05-23T13:35:15+00:00

Today, I have written a perl script, as the following code: my @files =

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Today, I have written a perl script, as the following code:

my @files = <./{FF35B8A6-985C-4644-87B1-3FE83D1A50B}/*>;
print @files;

But it outputs nothing. When I changed the guid path with general path such as d:, it worked. Why? Could perl support the path named with guid string?

OS: Windows 7 32bit
Perl version: ActivePerl 5.12.3

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  1. Editorial Team
    my @files = <\\{FF35B8A6-985C-4644-87B1-3FE83D1A50B\\}/*>;
print @files;

    should work. You need to quote special characters (here { and }).

    Quote from File::Glob

    On DOSISH systems, backslash is a valid directory separator character. In this case, use of backslash as a quoting character (via GLOB_QUOTE) interferes with the use of backslash as a directory separator. The best (simplest, most portable) solution is to use forward slashes for directory separators, and backslashes for quoting. However, this does not match “normal practice” on these systems. As a concession to user expectation, therefore, backslashes (under GLOB_QUOTE) only quote the glob metacharacters ‘[‘, ‘]’, ‘{‘, ‘}’, ‘-‘, ‘~’, and backslash itself. All other backslashes are passed through unchanged.

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