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in reply to (tye)Re2: framechat
in thread framechat

Too much repeated code.
my $tmpdir; for (qw(TMPDIR TMP TEMP)) { next unless $tmpdir = $ENV{$_}; last if -d $tmpdir; die "Invalid temporary directory $tmpdir from \$ENV{$_}\n"; } $tmpdir ||= "/tmp"; # if this is busted, you got troubles...

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

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(tye)Re3: framechat
by tye (Sage) on Mar 15, 2001 at 21:41 UTC

    $tmpdir ||= "/tmp"; # if this is busted, you got troubles...

    I guess you've never heard of the existance of other operating systems, eh? (:

            - tye (but my friends call me "Tye")
      He has, that's why he can say it's trouble. :)