in reply to file modified

There are two reasons why your "if" condition might be false. I'm curious as to which one of these was more of your concern: If neither of these are your concern, then I'd remove the entire if construct, leaving only the body statement (the print operation).

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Re^2: file modified
by ambrus (Abbot) on Jan 07, 2005 at 16:20 UTC

    Merlyn, I'm surprised you didn't point out that the result of -M can be undef if the stat fails, and that should be checked for, even if $myFile is a filehandle.

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