Re: Re: Is readdir ever deterministic?

[merlyn]

in reply to Re: Is readdir ever deterministic?
in thread Is readdir ever deterministic?

Well, being truly defensive, you should have written:

foreach my $file ( grep { !/\A\.{1,2}\z/ } readdir DIR ) { 
    munge($file); 
} 

Or else the day someone creates a file named dot-newline or dotdot-newline, you'll be very angry.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker