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From: worley@compass.com (Dale Worley)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Bug(?) report
Message-ID: <1991Mar28.172718.6622@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU>
Date: 28 Mar 91 17:27:18 GMT
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   X-Name: Raymond Chen

   In article <1991Mar27.205437.28251@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU> you write:
   >	    if (index("/.", *tmpfilename))
   >
   >The effect of the above 'if' is that if the argument to 'do'
   >or 'require' *contains* the substring '/.', then the searching in @INC
   >is suppressed.

   Methinks you are mistaken.  The test in question says `check if the
   first character of tmpfilename is a dot or a slash'.  Observe the
   `*' in front of tmpfilename, and reread the man page for index(3).

Oops.  Much embarrassed.  I should have checked it more carefully.

However, its behavior is still peculiar -- the check should be for
"starts with slash or with dot-slash".  If a name starts with dot-dot,
the user may well want to have it searched for.

Dale

Dale Worley		Compass, Inc.			worley@compass.com
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