Re: true from (-e "") on Windoze

It's not just two doublequotes. Just one doublequote, three doublequotes, ... seems any number of doublequotes work. Considering the fact that a doublequote is an illegal character in file names in Windows ...

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Re^2: true from (-e "") on Windoze by afoken (Chancellor) on Jul 02, 2012 at 20:05 UTC
It's not just two doublequotes. Just one doublequote, three doublequotes, ... seems any number of doublequotes work. ... but not in C code, only in perl. Considering the fact that a doublequote is an illegal character in file names in Windows ... ... there can be no file or directory with such a name, so `stat()` should fail, either with "file not found" or with "invalid file name". But it should not stat() the current directory instead. Alexander -- Today I will gladly share my knowledge and experience, for there are no sweeter words than "I told you so". ;-)	[reply] [d/l]

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Re^2: true from (-e "") on Windoze
by afoken (Chancellor) on Jul 02, 2012 at 20:05 UTC

It's not just two doublequotes. Just one doublequote, three doublequotes, ... seems any number of doublequotes work.

... but not in C code, only in perl.

Considering the fact that a doublequote is an illegal character in file names in Windows ...

... there can be no file or directory with such a name, so stat() should fail, either with "file not found" or with "invalid file name". But it should not stat() the current directory instead.

Alexander

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