merlyn@agora.UUCP (Randal L. Schwartz) (06/12/89)
In article <1537@agora.UUCP> batie@agora.UUCP (Alan Batie) writes: | From article <5058@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>, by lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall): | > Actually, it suffices to put a space after the first >, as in "> >a". | > Of course, this means you can't easily create a filename starting with spaces, | > but why would you want to do that anyway? | | Although I agree with Larry in this case, the question "Why would you want to | do that anyway?" is usually followed by someone finding a good reason to do | so, and I consider it a very dangerous question. Well, beating them to the punch, you *can* create a filename beginning with a space the hard way, with: open(F,"> ./ foo") || die; so there. Just another satisfied Perl hacker (thanks larry!), -- Randal L. Schwartz, Stonehenge Consulting Services (503)777-0095 quality software, documentation, and training at affordable rates <merlyn@agora.hf.intel.com> ...!uunet!agora.hf.intel.com!merlyn