Re: Is this a logic bug or a perl bug?

Since others have pointed out what is causing your main problems, I'd like to address some other areas

use strict will help you write more rugged code

use warnings or -w is highly recommended for much the same reason and both help in debugging

You check on open for failure, how about on chdir and opendir?

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Re: Re: Is this a logic bug or a perl bug? by weltyj (Novice) on Aug 17, 2001 at 22:09 UTC
I whipped the code up to duplicate the problem I was having, you sharp folks found the answer -- I wasn't trying to make this example perfect in every sense, normally, I do more of the warnings and using strict and error trapping.	[reply]