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in reply to TIMTOWTDI -- so long as it's not my way

My most recent was print printf("%03d\n", $number); and it took way to long to figure out where the extra one was coming from.

And another one from a long program that wrote a bunch of files, but got rid of any empty ones.
# The code as it was executed open filehandles print "to file"; # This was anything from # a few to huge # of items #cleanup dir go through directory and unlink any empty files close filehandles
For some reason if the program didn't have much to say I'd wind up with fewer files than expected.