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

["Bernie Cosell" <bernie@fantasyfarm.com>]

On 10 Jun 99, at 14:00, Vicki Brown wrote:

[...]
>     open(FH, ">$file") or die;
> 
> 
> # oops; that ran awfully fast ;^)

AHA!  A perl analog to the "rm -r * ~" Unix gotcha...
                                   ^ whoops on that space...

I had a similar problem, although not quite as disastrous, in trying to 
open a file for reading and writing, and learning [the hard way] the 
difference between "+<NAME" and "+>NAME" :o)

   /bernie\
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