Re: Useless use of a variable in void context

[Jim Conner]

At 11:28 11.23.2001 -0800, Ahmed Moustafa Ibrahim Ahmed wrote:
>Hi,
>The following line of code "if (-d $filename) {" gives me the error message
>"Useless use of a variable in void context". What does this error message,
>please?
>Thanks
>--Ahmed

Check to make sure that "$filename" actually has a value assigned to it 
before making sure that the file is a directory ( -d ).


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