in reply to Pattern Matching in Cygwin Perl vs. Win32 Perl

Update: Don't upvote this post. It is absolute rubbish! Though no more so than the other "reasons" suggested in this thread!

Is the name of the file definitely WORD.LST? Not maybe word.lst or Word.lst or some other variation of case?

I'm not sure how closely Cygwin emulates POSIX, but is it possible that it will only open the file if the case matches exactly?

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Re^2: Pattern Matching in Cygwin Perl vs. Win32 Perl
by tubaandy (Deacon) on Aug 27, 2008 at 13:17 UTC
    If the issue is opening word.lst, would it help to first use a small version of word.lst (containing say 5 words), and print them out as you read the file in? That way you can tell if you are reading in things to match in the first place... Just a thought.

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