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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Novice surprise
Message-ID: <11407@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 12 Feb 91 18:18:42 GMT
References: <cbhl9z200VsnE1=K1b@andrew.cmu.edu> <11393@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> <22434654@bfmny0.BFM.COM> <1991Feb12.165848.18718@convex.com>
Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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In article <1991Feb12.165848.18718@convex.com> tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) writes:
: Also, Larry's works on things that Tom Neff's doesn't: you
: can't open a file named "-" nor any with trailing white space
: unless you use Larry's quotation mechanism, or it's functional
: equivalent, like
: 
:     grep(s#^([^/])(.*)#./$1$2\0#, @ARGV);

Unfortunately, that's not a functional equivalent, since it won't put the
trailing null on an absolute pathname.

Larry