Re: file size test on 5.005

Well, it very well may be that you have stumbled on a bug in Perl. However, 5.005_03 was released more than 4 years ago, and we have had 2 major releases, 2 minor releases, and a whole battery of development releases since.

Please confirm whether you have the same problems with 5.8.1. If not, it was a bug in Perl, and it was fixed.

Abigail

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Re: Re: file size test on 5.005_3? by djbiv (Scribe) on Oct 15, 2003 at 21:29 UTC
I don't have this problem in 5.8.0, and unfortantly cannot upgrade the AIX box at this time... Are there any other ways to retreive the file size other then "-s" and stat ??? UPDATE: "stat" actually returns the same results as -s on 5.005_3	[reply]
Re: file size test on 5.005_3? by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Oct 15, 2003 at 21:34 UTC
It's a strange environment you work in, if you can't replace buggy software where to bug make your programs fail. I wonder, if your monitor breaks, it won't be replaced either? Anyway, if you can't use -s or stat, you could always open the file, seek to the end, and use tell(). Of course, that might be broken too. Abigail	[reply]