in reply to sorting a directories content

Side note: don't use !/^\.\.?$/ to filter out the current and parent directories. A more robust way is to use direct comparisons: $_ ne '.' and $_ ne '..'

That way you can never be tricked by dodgy files with names like ".\n".

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Re^2: sorting a directories content
by betterworld (Curate) on Apr 13, 2007 at 14:31 UTC
    That way you can never be tricked by dodgy files with names like ".\n".

    You can replace $ with \z, that is also newline-safe.

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