Re: -e fails sometimes

"Paul Lalli" <mritty@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Asterbing wrote:
Hello. Under ActivePerl/Apache2/Win2k, sometimes (not everytime) the
file existence test fails while the path is correct.

....

Does the $file syntax should follow some rules (comes from a form and I
don't escape the "\", is that ok ?) ?

What \ are you talking about?

Think! Win2K -> \

We expect people posting a message to have some clue, why not the people
who reply?


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