--- Scott Lutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Why is it that you have to "\" out the @ symbol in the
> regex below?
Because scalars, arrays and suchlike are stuffed into the
regex before it is compiled. Rather like a regex version
of double quotes (and why quotemeta() exists).
Use single quote
Why is it that you have to "\" out the @ symbol in the regex below?
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
opendir(TEMP_DIR, "/home/slutz/temp");
my @items = grep(/\.BAD/,readdir(TEMP_DIR));
closedir(TEMP_DIR);
my ($file, $line);
foreach $file (@items) {
print "Going into file : $file\
