Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
"Rob" == Rob Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:Rob> my @new = grep /[^.]/, readdir DIR; This is still the wrong regex. While it's narrow enough for windows, it will *break* on Unix. No reason not to do the right thing here: grep { $_ ne "." and $_ ne ".." } readdir DIR; Rob, I'm surprised you still posted this even after our private email exchange. You were *told* in email that this regex is broken. Therefore, I will warn others to please discount Rob's postings in the future, [...]
Not quite. Rob's program works for rational input data. I'm on *nux, and I consider a filename of only periods to be invalid. All that's needed is a comment in the code that warns people that files consisting of only periods, including '...', are excluded.
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