Newbie again.
Sorry if this question sounds so silly
Want to open filenames like ~username/blah but open doesn't interpret the tilde to
mean the
home directory
Solution
expand the filename manually with substitution
$filename =~ s{ ^ ~ ( [^/]* ) }
{ $1
? (getpwnam($1)) [7]
: ( $ENV{HOME} || $ENV{LOGDIR}
|| (getpwuid($>)) [7]
)
}ex;
The auther says the following can me matched
~user
~user/blah
~
~/blah
Could someone make me clear how these can be matched by the pattern inside the
parenthesis
which is ( [^/]*)
Thanks in advance
