Re: [MacPerl] Using -e file test

[Rich Morin <rdm@cfcl.com>]

At 11:48 -0800 11/5/98, Kevin Johnson wrote:
>$filepath = "HD:somefile.txt"; #place where the file is to be copied to
>if (-e, "$filepath") {
       ^
I think the comma is your problem.  It is a legal Perl operator, but it
isn't needed (or desirable!) here.

-r

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