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in thread Win32 File Creation Weirdness, ActivePerl 5.8.8

I am speechless. Needing those chars escaped if preceded by an odd number of \"?? That requirement's straight out of Monty Python!

The zeroeth step in writing a module is to make sure that there isn't already a decent one in CPAN. (-- Pod::Simple::Subclassing)

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Re^5: Win32 File Creation Weirdness, ActivePerl 5.8.8
by AnomalousMonk (Archbishop) on Jul 07, 2009 at 22:47 UTC
    You said it, brother!

    Also – take a look at ikegami's user image: those tomes are Windows manuals. Bonk.

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