Re^2: Read Directory

It checks (in an arcane way) for a directory named "BUS", but in the current directory

Sorry, no. BUS is just a bareword here with no meaning whatsoever for -d.

perl -le'print map{pack c,($-++?1:13)+ord}split//,ESEL'

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Re^3: Read Directory by Corion (Patriarch) on May 26, 2017 at 07:12 UTC
Had I tested my assumption, I would have come to that same conclusion: `perl -we "print -d SCRIPTS" Name "main::SCRIPTS" used only once: possible typo at -e line 1. -d on unopened filehandle SCRIPTS at -e line 1. Use of uninitialized value in print at -e line 1.` [download] I thought the bareword would be treated as a string, but it gets treated as a filehandle. That's what I get for not using the old ways but lexical filehandles wherever I can `:)`.	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re^3: Read Directory
by Corion (Patriarch) on May 26, 2017 at 07:12 UTC

Had I tested my assumption, I would have come to that same conclusion:

perl -we "print -d SCRIPTS"
Name "main::SCRIPTS" used only once: possible typo at -e line 1.
-d on unopened filehandle SCRIPTS at -e line 1.
Use of uninitialized value in print at -e line 1.
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I thought the bareword would be treated as a string, but it gets treated as a filehandle.

That's what I get for not using the old ways but lexical filehandles wherever I can :).

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