Hiya,

I have stumbled over a problem in my program. Trying to find the reason I have written the follwing test script:: 
my $pseudofile = " ";
print "File exists.\n" if ( -e $pseudofile );

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For the following pseudofile - names Perl claimed the file existed: 
my $pseudofile = " ";
my $pseudofile = " . . ";
my $pseudofile = " .. ";
my $pseudofile = "             ";
my $pseudofile = " .     ";

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I am not aware of the reason, is this on purpose? Or is this a bug?
I am using Active Perl 5.8.3 and WinXP (MSWin32-x86-multi-thread)

Hans

In reply to -e " " returns true by PerlingTheUK

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