Re^4: readdir missing one file

You'll stop iterating prematurely if you have a file named 0 (zero).

That hasn't been true for a very long time:

perl -MO=Deparse -e 'while ($f = readdir $h) {1;}'
while (defined($f = readdir $h)) {
    '???';
}
-e syntax OK
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Re^5: readdir missing one file by blazar (Canon) on Oct 18, 2008 at 12:18 UTC
I personally believe that I've just discovered the second little bit of `C<while>` (being more) magic (than I already knew) in just a few days... `--` If you can't understand the incipit, then please check the IPB Campaign.	[reply] [d/l] [select]