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in thread Reading directories and parsing standard names

I thought about doing that, but it seemed kinda messy :P
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Re: Re: Re: Reading directories and parsing standard names
by koolade (Pilgrim) on Aug 11, 2001 at 20:14 UTC

    Messy? With this you're looking at one step versus four or five.

    Whether you use a text file to hold the id or not, I smell a possible race condition. See File::CounterFile for more info.