Re: McAfee False Positive

Not quite sure that you are trying to do, but in Perl, $0 normally means the name of the executing program,

#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;

print "$0\n";
__END__
prints:
C:\TEMP\dollar0.pl
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If you try to open $0 for writing, this will cause some problems! Maybe you are trying to get the command line args to your program and there are ways to do that. Update: I recommend using "warnings" and "strict" as I have shown above.

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Re^2: McAfee False Positive by SavannahLion (Pilgrim) on Apr 08, 2010 at 12:59 UTC
I want the name of the executing program. I'm trying to use the hash to generate skeleton functions for the hash itself. If you note I open two files. One is $0 to read itself and one is $0.new for the output. I removed an entire previous section that McAfee wasn't balking at. It contains program setup including hash construction and unrelated functions. Also included, but I completely forgot to include here are the strict and warnings. They're there, I just didn't include them here. Sorry about that.	[reply]

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Re^2: McAfee False Positive
by SavannahLion (Pilgrim) on Apr 08, 2010 at 12:59 UTC

I want the name of the executing program. I'm trying to use the hash to generate skeleton functions for the hash itself. If you note I open two files. One is $0 to read itself and one is $0.new for the output.

I removed an entire previous section that McAfee wasn't balking at. It contains program setup including hash construction and unrelated functions. Also included, but I completely forgot to include here are the strict and warnings. They're there, I just didn't include them here. Sorry about that.

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