Running variants of: tar tzf perl-5.8.0.tar.gz | perl -lne'print if tr|-_./a-zA-Z0-9||c'
suggests only [-_./a-zA-Z0-9] are valid characters in a path name. Then I noticed 'perldoc perlport' lists the portable filename characters as defined by ANSI C and various other restrictions. What is the length limit of each path name component? What is the length limit of file extensions? I heard YAML changed from .yaml to .yml, for instance, yet Perl itself has many files with long extensions -- runtime.porting, for example. It'd be nice to have a standard test for valid "portable" path names. Does such a test exist? I noticed Archive::Any has is_impolite() and is_naughty() but didn't see any checks for basic path name validity. BTW, is Archive::Any a "dead camel"? /-\ http://search.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Search - Looking for more? Try the new Yahoo! Search
