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From: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: perl question about > in file name
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Date: 8 Jun 89 22:49:24 GMT
References: <123@zip.eecs.umich.edu>
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As quoted from <123@zip.eecs.umich.edu> by don@zippy.eecs.umich.edu (Don Winsor):
+---------------
|     begins with ">>", the file is opened for appending.
| 
| This seems to preclude any nice way to access files whose names
| may contain arbitrary characters.  Is there any way around this?
+---------------

Use backslashes to escape them, probably.

Before you flame this as not being transparent enough:  even C has to escape
the \ and " characters.

++Brandon
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