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The "<" in the grep blockby vagabonding electron (Curate) |
on Sep 23, 2012 at 14:56 UTC ( [id://995208]=perlquestion: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
vagabonding electron has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:
Dear Monks, doing some exercises from the Alpaca book I noticed a strange behavior of the grep operator. The exercise was to filter the files smaller than 1000 bytes. This code (if called with C:\perl\bin>perl script.pl N:/TEMP/*): produces the following error message: If I use the parenthesis it runs ok: If I search for files bigger than 1000 the parentheses are not necessary. It seems that perl interprets the less than sign as a part of a diamond operator. In the answers part of the book however there is a line exact as my original line without parentheses: Is it the windows peculiarity which I have here? Thanks in advance! VE
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