Re: [MacPerl] Re: OT dot files

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 14.33 -0500 1999.01.12, Doug McNutt wrote:
>What really bugs me though is filenames that include a return character like
>"icon\n' for folders and disks with a special icon. I haven't seen a
>filename with a null character in it, but I believe it's perfectly possible
>so long as you don't insist on C strings. Can one work with a null in a
>regular expression in Perl?

  $_ = "\0";
  print "yep, and " if /./;
  print "yep" if /\0/;

I sometimes, when dealing with files in a directory, filter out:

  next if $file eq "Icon\n";

Or:

  @files = grep !/^Icon\n$/, readdir(D);

etc.  Unix users have to deal with something similar:

  next if $file =~ /^\.\.?$/;

etc.

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