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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: (repost, and possible fix):  is ( -e _ ) always true??
Message-ID: <10136@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 28 Oct 90 06:54:21 GMT
References: <1180@etnibsd.UUCP>
Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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In article <1180@etnibsd.UUCP> vsh@etnibsd.UUCP (Steve Harris) writes:
: Bug:  the -e operator (test for file existence) always returns 1 (true)
: 	when applied to the magic argument _

Okay, I'll fix it, but why anyone would test for the existence of a file after
testing for something more particular is beyond my meager reasoning ability.

But thanks for the patch.  Being a lazy critter, I appreciate it when people
save me some time.

Larry