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Re: RFC: Perl Second-Best Practicesby radiantmatrix (Parson) |
| on Dec 19, 2005 at 15:31 UTC ( [id://517757]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
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The "second-best" thing I do regularly is to use path strings instead of building them with the File::Spec functions. It's all ActiveState's fault: their version of Perl for Win32 lets me get away with using open my $FH, '<', './data/source.txt' or die($!), where as other Win32 versions of Perl will not DWIM on the forward slashes. This has bitten me more than once when one of the scripts I write for work gets run on a box using PXPerl...
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