Re: [Fun With Perl] Idiom misuse (typos can getcha)

[Tushar Samant <tushar@i-works.com>]

> >     open(FH, ">$file") or die;
> > 
> > 
> > # oops; that ran awfully fast ;^)
> 
> AHA!  A perl analog to the "rm -r * ~" Unix gotcha...
>                                    ^ whoops on that space...

The mistake, rather, was in matching the name with /.+/. It's utterly
wrong, of course. I would just say $_ eq '.' or $_ eq '..'.

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Tushar Samant
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