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Escaping or removing all dots was something I originally considered, but decided against, because it would mangle my file exension. I didn't think to append the extension automatically... duh! How simple. :)

Also, Aristotle++ for pointing out the problem with join "", <FH>. This is something I use often, for no reason other than it seems clear and obvious to me... but if it's grossly inefficient, I'll gladly switch to something else.

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Re^3: escaping filenames taken in via user input
by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Oct 30, 2002 at 02:30 UTC
    Well, not necesarily grossly inefficient - but it's just useless work. I don't generally microoptimize, but there's absolutely no gain to be had by the less efficient form, since typing do { local $/; <FH> } instead takes no more programmer time and doesn't make maintenance any harder. So it's a case of simple economics. </rambling type="short"> :-)

    Makeshifts last the longest.

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