http://qs321.pair.com?node_id=371917


in reply to Re: -e " " returns true
in thread -e " " returns true

ActivePerl Build 809
v5.8.3 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; my @files = (' ', ' . . ', ' .. ', ' ', ' . '); foreach (@files) { print "[$_] - ", -e $_ ? "yes\n" : "no\n"; } __END__ [ ] - yes [ . . ] - yes [ .. ] - yes [ ] - yes [ . ] - yes