[Israel.pm] Cwd::abs_path and "~"

[Offer Kaye]

> 
> ~ is not a real pathname. In C-shell and many other shells (tcsh, 
> bash, zsh, 
> etc.) it is an alias for the environment variable $HOME. The 
> correct syntax 
> would be:
> 
> abs_path("$ENV{HOME}/some/path");
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 	Shlomi Fish
> 

Alas, the input is not up to me. I must deal with it, I can't tell the users to write "$ENV{HOME}" instead of "~".
Anyway, problem solved- I used Perl's "glob" function and fed the output from that to abs_path:

Cwd::abs_path( (glob "~/some/path")[0] );

The reason for wrapping glob with ()[0] is the way it behaves in scalar context:
"In scalar context, glob iterates through such filename expansions, returning undef when the list is exhausted."
This way I get rid of the undef value...

BTW, I checked, and Perl's "chdir" also doesn't like "~", so this is not a problem specific to Cwd.

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Offer Kaye