OK, there is a chance I'm just tired and missing something obvious, but this is very strange:

c:\blah> dir
07/10/2008  08:45 PM    <DIR>          16
07/10/2008  08:45 PM    <DIR>          17
07/10/2008  08:24 PM    <DIR>          18
07/10/2008  08:45 PM    <DIR>          19
19/03/2009  09:44 AM    <DIR>          20- Foo bar bat
30/10/2008  10:25 AM    <DIR>          21 Baz bat qux
07/10/2008  08:45 PM    <DIR>          22- Shiver me timbers
...

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c:\blah> perl -e "for (glob '*') { my ($id) = /
(\d+)$/ || /^(\d+)/; print \"$_ => id=$id\n\"; }"

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Prints nothing, but CREATES A FILE called 'id' with content:

16 ==1
17 ==1
18 ==1
19 ==1
20- Foo bar bat ==20
21 Baz bat qux ==21
22- Shiver me timbers ==22
23 ==1
...

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What is going on here?

Infos: perl, v5.8.8 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread, Binary build 816 [255195] provided by ActiveState

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

In reply to Win32 File Creation Weirdness, ActivePerl 5.8.8 by missingthepoint

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