in reply to error : Value too large for defined data type while checking file existence in perl

If installing a new perl is not in the cards, what about
a) try opening the file for reading
b) put an eval around the -e
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Re^2: error : Value too large for defined data type while checking file existence in perl
by Anonymous Monk on Feb 28, 2017 at 16:45 UTC

    Ignore b, maybe try something like this:

    use Errno;
$! = 0;
if (-e $file || $! == Errno::EOVERFLOW) {
   # exists
}
else {
   # doesn't
}

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