in reply to Re: Avoiding duplicate filenames
in thread Avoiding duplicate filenames

I started using Perl in the mid 1990's with Perl 5.6

You were ahead of your time. Perl 5.6 was released in 2000.

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Re^3: Avoiding duplicate filenames
by Marshall (Canon) on Sep 26, 2018 at 01:32 UTC
    Correct. My memory is faulty, but I think Perl 5.x was available at that time. At least the syntax to call a sub was not &sub.

    In any event, this is 2018 and this is the wrong syntax.

    UPDATE: Also I do highly recommend "Consider some kind of DB validation process." There are many ways that a filename stored in the DB can go "wrong".

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