Rod Butcher wrote: > Do we need to bear in mind here that Perl, because of its Unix origin, > considers a directory to be just a file containing a list of filenames ? > So the distinction between file or directory need not be made ? Rather, > "we have an entity in the file system named ...".
Not when you're talking about the -d operator. -d tests whether that entity is a directory or not. -e tests whether its exists or not as a file or directory. If you test for -d and it fails and then you try to create that dir it will fail. If you test with -e to see if the dir exists and it does it could fail if you try putting a file in that dir since it could have been a file rather than a dir. _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list Perl-Win32-Users@listserv.ActiveState.com To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
