On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 07:42:02AM -0700, Paul Lalli wrote: > It's known, but I don't know that it qualifies as a bug. When you > use the two argument form of open, Perl is looking for both the > filename and mode, concatenated together, possibly with spaces > separating them. Since your file ends in a space, you can't use this > shortcut. In reality, you should NEVER use this short cut.
That's an awfully long time. The functionality is there for a reason, and sometimes it's appropriate to use it. Admittedly, that's not very often, but it's more often than never. -- Paul Johnson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pjcj.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/